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Brave New World predicts - with eerie clarity - a terrifying vision
of the future. Read the dystopian classic. EVERYONE BELONGS TO
EVERYONE ELSE Welcome to New London. Everybody is happy here. Our
perfect society achieved peace and stability through the
prohibition of monogamy, privacy, money, family and history itself.
Now everyone belongs. You can be happy too. All you need to do is
take your Soma pills. Discover the brave new world of Aldous
Huxley's classic novel, written in 1932, which prophesied a society
which expects maximum pleasure and accepts complete surveillance -
no matter what the cost. 'A masterpiece of speculation... As
vibrant, fresh, and somehow shocking as it was when I first read
it' Margaret Atwood, bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale 'A
grave warning... Provoking, stimulating, shocking and dazzling'
Observer **One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**
Translated by Constance Garnett with an Introduction and Notes by
Dr Keith Carabine, University of Kent at Canterbury. Crime and
Punishment is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever
written. From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied
consciousness of Raskolnikov who, against his better instincts, is
inexorably drawn to commit a brutal double murder. From that moment
on, we share his conflicting feelings of self-loathing and pride,
of contempt for and need of others, and of terrible despair and
hope of redemption: and, in a remarkable transformation of the
detective novel, we follow his agonised efforts to probe and
confront both his own motives for, and the consequences of, his
crime. The result is a tragic novel built out of a series of
supremely dramatic scenes that illuminate the eternal conflicts at
the heart of human existence: most especially our desire for
self-expression and self-fulfilment, as against the constraints of
morality and human laws; and our agonised awareness of the world's
harsh injustices and of our own mortality, as against the mysteries
of divine justice and immortality.
Begin your journey into Middle-earth.
A new legend begins on Prime Video, in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, the new prequel series to J. R. R. Tolkien’s epic adventure THE LORD OF THE RINGS. Now is the time to get your hands on the original trilogy again, ending with The Return Of The King.
The Dark Lord has risen, and as he unleashes hordes of Orcs to conquer all Middle-earth, Frodo and Sam struggle deep into his realm in Mordor. To defeat Sauron, the One Ring must be destroyed in the fires of Mount Doom. But the way is impossibly hard, and Frodo is weakening.
The Ring corrupts all who bear it and Frodo's time is running out. Will Sam and Frodo succeed, or will the Dark Lord rule Middle-earth once more?
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