Book description
The audiobook presentation of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932) and Brave New World Revisited (1958) delivers an unparalleled auditory experience, crystallizing the author's enduring prophetic vision with profound immediacy. Narration achieves meticulous precision, rendering Huxley's intricate critique of genetic engineering, psychological conditioning, and state-controlled pleasure systems palpable. The listener perceives the chilling efficiency of a society where human potential is systematically engineered for passive utility, a dystopia rendered viscerally through measured vocal delivery that underscores the text's clinical horror.
Brave New World Revisited, Huxley's non-fiction analysis, gains significant resonance in audio format. The audiobook's cadence effectively contrasts the 1932 speculative narrative with 1958 socio-political realities, highlighting the author's prescient warnings regarding overpopulation, mass media manipulation, and chemical persuasion. Huxley's voice, conveyed through the narration, carries the weight of a scholar who observed the accelerating convergence of his fictional constructs with contemporary phenomena. His intellectual rigor-evident in his nine Nobel Prize nominations and the Royal Society of Literature's 1962 Companion designation-lends authoritative weight to arguments concerning the erosion of individual autonomy through technological and psychological means.
The dual-text structure of this audiobook presents a compelling dialectic: Brave New World establishes the fictional framework, while Revisited provides the critical lens through which the 1958 reader (and modern listener) must view the accelerating trajectory of the present. Huxley's philosophical grounding in mysticism, explored in The Doors of Perception and The Perennial Philosophy, informs this work's deeper concern-preserving human essence against dehumanizing systems. The audiobook format amplifies this tension, allowing the listener to absorb the cumulative impact of Huxley's warnings without visual distraction.
This presentation transcends mere recitation; it functions as a vital auditory artifact. The narration's deliberate pacing mirrors Huxley's methodical dismantling of societal complacency, making the text's warnings resonate with urgent contemporary relevance. Listeners encounter not merely a historical critique but a living argument about the perils of sacrificing autonomy for comfort, a theme rendered increasingly pertinent through modern surveillance, algorithmic influence, and biotechnological advancement. The audiobook thus fulfills Huxley's own intention: to illuminate the present through the lens of a future he foresaw with unsettling clarity. It remains, as Huxley's most enduring masterpiece, a necessary and unsettling companion to our own era.
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Playing a wide variety of audio formats
Works on all devices with iOS 13 and newer
Huge amount of features for a small price
Frequent updates to add new features and improve existing ones
Advanced playback controls
Live sound processing
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice and noise reduction
Translated into more than 20 languages
If you love listening to fiction audiobooks, ListenBook has features to make the process easier.
Edit book data: title, author, cover
Use equalizer to make the sound comfortable for you
Adjust the playback speed
Enjoy dark and light app themes
Supported formats: MP3, M4B, AWB, FLAC, OGG audio files and many more (must be DRM free)
Auto-Bookmarks make it easy to find your place
AirPlay support allows redirection of audio output.
VoiceOver support
Dark mode for night owls
Convenient bookmarking system helps you mark the most important places.
Unlimited bookmarks for each audiobook
Put your own cover on the wager
Share your audiobook with friends
Lock-screen control
Customise app with extensive options
Sleep timer with shake to reset, set custom notification sounds, and a few unique options
Auto rewind depending on paused time, customize rewind times to your liking
Removing background noise from recordings made in classrooms and meetings
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice for a better listening experience