Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
1996
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- Comprehensive reading and study guides for the world's most important literary masterpieces- A selection of critical excerpts provide a scholarly overview of each work- "The Story Behind the Story" places the work in a historical perspective and discusses it legacy- Each book includes a biographical sketch of the author, a descriptive list of characters, an extensive summary and analysis, and an annotated bibliography
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Authors
Harold Bloom
Author · 172 books
Harold Bloom was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. Since the publication of his first book in 1959, Bloom has written more than forty books of literary criticism, several books discussing religion, and one novel. He edited hundreds of anthologies.
Aaron Tillman
Author · 2 books
Aaron Tillman is a fiction writer and Pushcart Prize nominee. He is a lecturer and graduate course director for the Writing Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Prior to joining the UMass Writing Program, Aaron was an Associate Professor of English and Director of the Honors Program at Newbury College, which closed in May 2019. His short story collection, Consolation Miracles, was published by Gateway Literary Press (January 2022). His short story collection, Every Single Bone in My Brain, was published by Braddock Avenue Books in 2017, and his book of critical nonfiction, Magical American Jew: The Enigma of Difference in Contemporary Jewish American Short Fiction and Film, was published by Lexington Books in 2018. Aaron received the John Gardner Memorial Prize in Fiction from Harpur Palate and a Short Story Award for New Writers from Glimmer Train Stories. His stories have appeared in many journals, including Mississippi Review, Glimmer Train Stories, Narrative Magazine, Harpur Palate, Sou'Wester, upstreet, and great weather for MEDIA. He has recorded stories for broadcast on the Words & Music program at Tufts University and for Functionally Literate Radio. His essays have appeared in The Writer's Chronicle, Studies in American Humor, Symbolism, The CEA Critic, and The Intersection of Fantasy and Native America (Mythopoeic 2009). He earned his PhD in English from University of Rhode Island, his MFA in Fiction Writing from Sarah Lawrence College, and his BA in English from Hobart College.
