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"Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto of Aldous Huxley's utopian World State. Here everyone consumes daily grams of soma, to fight depression, babies are born in laboratories, and the most popular form of entertainment is a "Feelie," a movie that stimulates the senses of sight, hearing, and touch. Though there is no violence and everyone is provided for, Bernard Marx feels something is missing and senses... (more)

Island (Perennial Classics)

by Aldous Huxley

In Island , his last novel, Huxley transports us to a Pacific island where, for 120 years, an ideal society has flourished. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala and events begin to move when an agent of the conspirators, a newspaperman named Faranby, is shipwrecked there. What Faranby doesn't expect is how his time with... (more)

Doors of Perception; Heaven and Hell

by Aldous Huxley

Two classic complete books -- The Doors of Perception (originally published in 1954) and Heaven and Hell (originally published in 1956) -- in which Aldous Huxley, author of the bestselling Brave New World , explores, as only he can, the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness. These two astounding essays are among the most profound studies of the effects of mind-expanding drugs... (more)

Brave New World Revisited (P.S.)

by Aldous Huxley

When the novel Brave New World first appeared in 1932, its shocking analysis of a scientific dictatorship seemed a projection into the remote future. Here, in one of the most important and fascinating books of his career, Aldous Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with his prophetic fantasy. He scrutinizes threats to humanity, such as overpopulation,... (more)

Point Counter Point (British Literature)

Point Counter Point (British Literature)

by Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley's lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest expression both thematically and formally in his masterpiece Point Counter Point. By presenting a vision of life in which diverse aspects of experience are observed simultaneously, Huxley characterizes the symptoms of "the disease of modern man" in the manner of a composerthemes and characters repeated, ... (more)

After Many a Summer Dies the Swan

by Aldous Huxley

A Hollywood millionaire with a terror of death, whose personal physician happens to be working on a theory of longevity--these are the elements of Huxley's caustic and entertaining satire on man's desire to live indefinitely.

Eyeless in Gaza

by Aldous Huxley

Crome Yellow

by Aldous Huxley

On vacation from school, Denis goes to stay at Crome, an English country house inhabitated by several of Huxley's most outlandish characters--from Mr. Barbecue-Smith, who writes 1,500 publishable words an hour by "getting in touch" with his "subconscious," to Henry Wimbush, who is obsessed with writing the definitive HISTORY OF CROME. Denis's stay proves to be a disaster amid his weak attempts to attract the girl... (more)

Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited

Harper Perennial Modern Classics

Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited

by Aldous Huxley

The astonishing novel Brave New World , originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future -- of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently useful to the ruling class. This powerful work of speculative fiction sheds a blazing critical light on the present and is... (more)

Ape and Essence

by Aldous Huxley

In this savage novel Huxley transports us to Los Angeles in the year 2018, where we learn to our dismay about the 22nd-century way of life.

The Devils of Loudun

by Aldous Huxley

1643: In one of history’s most sensational cases of mass possession and sexual hysteria, Urbain Grandier, a handsome seducer of women, and priest of the parish of Loudon, was found guilty of being in league with the devil and burnt at the stake. Huxley gives a vivid account of this bizarre tale of religious and sexual obsession.

BRIEF CANDLES - Stories: Chawdron; The Rest Cure; The Claxtons; After the Fireworks (by the author of Brave New World)Aldous Huxley

BRIEF CANDLES - Stories: Chawdron; The Rest Cure; The Claxtons; After the Fireworks (by the author of Brave New World)

by Aldous Huxley

Collected Short Stories of Aldous Huxley (Bantam PB)

Collected Short Stories of Aldous Huxley (Bantam PB)

by Aldous Huxley

Antic Hay

by Aldous Huxley

London life just after World War I, devoid of values and moving headlong into chaos at breakneck speed Aldous Huxley's Antic Hay , like Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises , portrays a world of lost souls madly pursuing both pleasure and meaning. Fake artists, third-rate poets, pompous critics, pseudo-scientists, con-men, bewildered romantics, cock-eyed futurists all inhabit this world spinning out of control, as... (more)

The Flame Trees of Thika : Memories of an African Childhood

The Flame Trees of Thika : Memories of an African Childhood

by Elspeth Joscelin Grant Huxley

New editions of Elspeth Huxley's stirring account of her childhood in Kenya and her novel of the destructive forces of colonization. In an open cart Elspeth Huxley set off with her parents to travel to Thika in Kenya. As pioneering settlers, they built a house of grass, ate off a damask cloth spread over packing cases, and discovered--the hard way--the world of the African. With an extraordinary gift for detail... (more)

Crome yellow

by Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley

by Aldous Huxley

THOSE BARREN LEAVES

by Aldous Huxley

In a renovated Italian palace high above the blue sea, the Junoesque figure of Mrs Aldwinkle moves among her guests — a brilliant Huxleyan cast of posturers. Those Barren Leaves bites the hands of those who dare to feign sophistication and is as comically fresh today as when it was first published.

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Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

Island (Perennial Classics)

by Aldous Huxley

Doors of Perception; Heaven and Hell

by Aldous Huxley

Brave New World Revisited (P.S.)

by Aldous Huxley

Point Counter Point (British Literature)

by Aldous Huxley

After Many a Summer Dies the Swan

by Aldous Huxley

Eyeless in Gaza

by Aldous Huxley

Crome Yellow

by Aldous Huxley

Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited

by Aldous Huxley

Ape and Essence

by Aldous Huxley

The Devils of Loudun

by Aldous Huxley

BRIEF CANDLES - Stories: Chawdron; The Rest Cure; The Claxtons; After the Fireworks (by the author of Brave New World)

by Aldous Huxley

Collected Short Stories of Aldous Huxley (Bantam PB)

by Aldous Huxley

Antic Hay

by Aldous Huxley

The Flame Trees of Thika : Memories of an African Childhood

by Elspeth Joscelin Grant Huxley

Crome yellow

by Aldous Huxley

by Aldous Huxley

THOSE BARREN LEAVES

by Aldous Huxley

Jacobs Hands

by Christopher Isherwood, Aldous Huxley

After many a Summer Dies the Swan