This volume is part of a new series of novels, plays and stories at GCSE/Key Stage 4 level, designed to meet the needs of the National Curriculum syllabus.

Each text includes an introduction, pre-reading activities, notes and coursework activities.

Also provided is a section on the process of writing, often compiled by the author.

Into the neatly programmed "Brave New World" of test-tube babies and drug-controlled happiness, misfit Bernard Marx brings the innocent Savage.

Huxley's vision of the future is also a chilling comment on the present.