Catalog / Brave New World
Brave New World
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Aldous Huxley
A technologically advanced society keeps order through conditioning, pleasure, and consumption. The novel sets collective stability against individual freedom.
- First publication
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Original language
- English
- ISBN-10
- 0060850523
- ISBN-13
- 9780060850524
- ASIN
- 0060850523
Why was Brave New World challenged?
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is in this catalog because a sourced record documents an at-risk action in United States in 1980. The book was removed from classrooms in Missouri and regularly challenged for its language, sexuality, and moral content.
The catalog records the scope as school. That is not a claim that the book is banned everywhere, or that a failed complaint has the same force as a prohibition. Open the sources under Bans and restrictions. Unsourced rumors are omitted.
Readers who search “why was Brave New World banned” should read the status label first. Banned, restricted, and at risk are defined on the methodology page and are not interchangeable.
Bans and restrictions
At risk · School
The book was removed from classrooms in Missouri and regularly challenged for its language, sexuality, and moral content.
A history of local removals and challenges documented by the ALA.
- Source → Banned & Challenged Classics American Library Association
Other questions
- Is Brave New World banned?
- In this catalog the primary documented status is “at risk” in United States, 1980. That is not a worldwide ban. Scope and sources are listed below.
- Why was Brave New World challenged?
- The book was removed from classrooms in Missouri and regularly challenged for its language, sexuality, and moral content.
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