On this date in 1949 Aldous Huxley wrote a letter to George Orwell complimenting his "profoundly important" new book

[JayDubya]

Read Aldous Huxley's review of 1984 he sent to George Orwell​

Several months after George Orwell's dystopian classic 1984 was published in 1949, Aldous Huxley sent a letter to his former French pupil. The Brave New World author had received a copy of 1984 from the publisher at Orwell's behest, but his poor eyesight prevented him from finishing the book for several months.

In his letter to Orwell, the fifty-year-old author compared the two books' screwed-up futures and saw the Orwellian Oceanic dystopia as a predecessor to his own World State. Wrote Huxley in October 1949:

Letter at link:
https://gizmodo.com/read-aldous-huxleys-review-of-1984-he-sent-to-george-or-5890861

 

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If you haven't read the books...........

https://plato-philosophy.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/BraveNewWorld-1.pdf

https://files.libcom.org/files/1984.pdf