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Published in 1932, Brave New World is Aldous Huxley’s dystopian vision of a future society engineered for efficiency, order, and pleasure—but at the expense of individuality, emotion, and truth. Set in a World State dominated by genetic engineering, social conditioning, and a strict caste system, the novel follows Bernard Marx, a discontented Alpha, and John “the Savage,” who was raised outside the system and becomes its most poignant critic.

As prophetic as it is provocative, Brave New World explores themes of technological control, consumerism, loss of identity, and the cost of utopia. Nearly a century later, its questions still feel eerily relevant. Are comfort and stability worth trading for truth and freedom? And what happens to the human spirit in a world where nothing is left to chance?

About the Author:

Aldous Huxley was an English novelist, essayist, and social critic best known for his incisive and unsettling visions of the future. Born in 1894 into a prominent intellectual family—his grandfather was biologist T.H. Huxley and his brother was biologist Julian Huxley—Aldous studied at Oxford before launching a prolific literary career.

Though Brave New World remains his most famous novel, Huxley wrote widely across genres, from satire (Crome Yellow) to spiritual memoir (The Doors of Perception). His later work grew increasingly concerned with mysticism, consciousness, and the human condition. A lifelong thinker and experimenter, Huxley spent his final decades in the United States, where he remained a vocal critic of conformity, authoritarianism, and unchecked technological progress. He died in 1963, on the same day as C.S. Lewis and John F. Kennedy.

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Horseman, Pass By tells the story of Homer Bannon, an old-time cattleman who epitomizes the frontier values of honesty and decency, and Hud, his unscrupulous stepson. Caught in the middle is the narrator, Homer's young grandson Lonnie, who is as much drawn to his grandfather’s strength of character as he is to Hud's hedonism and materialism.

When first published in 1961, Horseman, Pass By caused a sensation in Texas literary circles for its stark, realistic portrayal of the struggles of a changing West in the years following World War II. Never before had a writer managed to encapsulate its environment with such unsentimental realism. Today, memorable characters, powerful themes, and illuminating detail make Horseman, Pass By vintage McMurtry.

About the Author:

Larry Jeff McMurtry was an American novelist, essayist, and screenwriter whose work was predominantly set in either the Old West or contemporary Texas. His novels included Horseman, Pass By (1962), The Last Picture Show (1966), and Terms of Endearment (1975), which were adapted into films. Films adapted from McMurtry's works earned 34 Oscar nominations (13 wins). He was also a prominent book collector and bookseller.

His 1985 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove was adapted into a television miniseries that earned 18 Emmy Award nominations (seven wins). The subsequent three novels in his Lonesome Dove series were adapted as three more miniseries, earning eight more Emmy nominations. McMurtry and co-writer Diana Ossana adapted the screenplay for Brokeback Mountain (2005), which earned eight Academy Award nominations with three wins, including McMurtry and Ossana for Best Adapted Screenplay. In 2014, McMurtry received the National Humanities Medal.

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About the Book:

Horseman, Pass By tells the story of Homer Bannon, an old-time cattleman who epitomizes the frontier values of honesty and decency, and Hud, his unscrupulous stepson. Caught in the middle is the narrator, Homer's young grandson Lonnie, who is as much drawn to his grandfather’s strength of character as he is to Hud's hedonism and materialism.

When first published in 1961, Horseman, Pass By caused a sensation in Texas literary circles for its stark, realistic portrayal of the struggles of a changing West in the years following World War II. Never before had a writer managed to encapsulate its environment with such unsentimental realism. Today, memorable characters, powerful themes, and illuminating detail make Horseman, Pass By vintage McMurtry.

About the Author:

Larry Jeff McMurtry was an American novelist, essayist, and screenwriter whose work was predominantly set in either the Old West or contemporary Texas. His novels included Horseman, Pass By (1962), The Last Picture Show (1966), and Terms of Endearment (1975), which were adapted into films. Films adapted from McMurtry's works earned 34 Oscar nominations (13 wins). He was also a prominent book collector and bookseller.

His 1985 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove was adapted into a television miniseries that earned 18 Emmy Award nominations (seven wins). The subsequent three novels in his Lonesome Dove series were adapted as three more miniseries, earning eight more Emmy nominations. McMurtry and co-writer Diana Ossana adapted the screenplay for Brokeback Mountain (2005), which earned eight Academy Award nominations with three wins, including McMurtry and Ossana for Best Adapted Screenplay. In 2014, McMurtry received the National Humanities Medal.

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