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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Brave New World
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(1932) Satirical novel by Aldous *Huxley set in a terrifying future (the year is 632 AF, or After Ford), where genetic engineering has led to a clinically stable society in which personal freedom is no more than a romantic idea from the past. The title is borrowed, with irony, from Shakespeare; when Miranda first sets eyes upon a group of courtiers in The *Tempest, she cries 'O brave new world, that has such people in't!'.
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