In 1999, the Modern Library ranked Brave New World at number 5 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.

The novel is often compared to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). Huxley followed this book with a reassessment in essay form, Brave New World Revisited (1958), and with his final novel, Island (1962), the utopian counterpart.

Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning that are combined to make a dystopian society which is challenged by only a single individual: the story's protagonist. John asks why they couldn't write new stories like.Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932.

Besides, they couldn't understand stories like Othello and Romeo Juliet. Beauty is attractive, and they want people to be attracted by new things. John asks why the books are prohibited, and Mond says they haven't any use for old things here, especially when they're beautiful. The Controller admits he's one of the few who knows about the books since he makes the rules, he can break them with impunity. John admits there are some nice things about civilization, and is surprised when Mustapha Mond quotes Shakespeare. John, taken off-guard by the good-humored intelligence of the Controller's face, replies truthfully. He says he understands John doesn't like civilization. Mustapha Mond enters and shakes hands with all three of them, but it's John he addresses. The three are taken to the World Controller's office.

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