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Brave new world by aldous leonard huxley 18941963 chapter one a squat grey building of only thirtyfour stories. Rose brave new world literary response journal prompts each response should be thoughtful and welldeveloped. At the time the book was written this idea, that human beings are given free will in order to choose. Aldous huxley wrote it in his house from may to august 1931 within 4 months. Foreword 1946 chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is almost undesirable sentiment.
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