‘Brave New World’ the third most censored book in America, librarians say

‘Brave New World’ the third most censored book in America, librarians say


By Eric W. Dolan
Tuesday, April 12th, 2011 -- 5:11 pm
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Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel Brave New World placed third in the American Library Association’s (ALA) Top Ten List of the Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2010.

The most common reason the futuristic novel, written by the British author in 1931 and published in 1932, was requested to be restricted or removed from libraries was because of its alleged insensitivity, offensive language, racism, and sexually explicit content.

Brave New World is set in the London of 2540 AD, where mass production has inundated nearly every aspect of society, free-love is mandatory and residents keep themselves in a happy stupor by self-medicating with an antidepressant-like drug called soma.

Unlike George Orwell's famous dystopian novel 1984, Huxley's novel envisioned a totalitarian government than used distractions and pleasures to suppress the population rather than brute force and propaganda.

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