Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

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Author and screenwriter Aldous Huxley are best known for his 1932 novel 'Brave New World,' a nightmarish vision of the future. Aldous Huxley was born into a prominent intellectual family in Godalming, England, in 1894. At Aldous' birth, the Huxley family and their relatives already commanded literary and philosophical attention in Victorian England. Since he was born into a family that included some of the most distinguished members of that part of the English ruling class made up of the intellectual elite. Aldous' father was the son of Thomas Henry Huxley, a biologist who helped develop the theory of evolution. His mother was the sister of Mrs. Humphry Ward, the novelist; the niece of Matthew Arnold, the poet; and the granddaughter of Thomas