Aldous Huxley: 83 books

Aldous Huxley was one of the most unique intellectuals of his age, but he was also one of the greatest. While he was controversial for dabbling with mysticism, a belief in parapsychology and the supernatural, and for advocating the use of psychedelic drugs, nobody could deny his abilities. Having...

Over the course of his career, British writer Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) shifted away from elitist social satires and an atheistic outlook toward greater concern for the masses and the use of religious terms and imagery. This change in Huxley's thinking underlies the previously unpublished play Now More...

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 Aldous Huxley's caustic and entertaining satire on man's desire to live indefinitely. With his customary wit and intellectual sophistication, Huxley pursues...

De volta às livrarias com novo projeto gráfico e nova tradução, relato de Huxley sobre suas experiências com a mescalina segue atual Um dos livros mais conhecidos de Aldous Huxley, As portas da percepção influenciou gerações ao detalhar o efeito das drogas sobre os sentidos do escritor....

A collection of seven short stories by Aldous Huxley. The author of nearly fifty books, he was best known for his novels including Brave New World, set in a dystopian future; for non-fiction works, such as The Doors of Perception, which recalls experiences when taking a psychedelic drug; and...

Dans le futur, la technologie a permis le clonage des êtres humains. Les enfants sont conçus dans des éprouvettes. Ils sont génétiquement conditionnés pour appartenir à l’une des cinq catégories de population, de l’élite intellectuelle à l’homme «robot» : les Alpha (l’élite),...

Do mesmo autor de Admirável mundo novo, um dos maiores clássicos da literatura do século XX, este Contraponto surpreenderá o leitor que espera outra ficção científica, ou um mundo tecnologicamente distante do nosso. Entretanto, confirmará vários dos elementos que estão em Admirável, e que...

Crome Yellow is the first novel by British author Aldous Huxley, published in 1921. In the book, Huxley satirises the fads and fashions of the time. It is the story of a house party at Crome, a parodic version of Garsington Manor, home of Lady Ottoline Morrell, a house where authors such as Huxley...

Réédition d'un grand classique de la science-fiction épuisé. 50e anniversaire de la mort d'Aldous Huxley. En l'an 2108, la Troisième Guerre mondiale a pris fin depuis déjà plus d'un siècle mais les stigmates de ses destructions atomiques n'ont pas disparu et l'humanité, décimée par...

Aldous Huxley revient sur son grand classique de la science-fiction dans un texte plus pamphlétaire. Trente ans après Le Meilleur des mondes, Aldous Huxley revient sur ce roman phare de la science-fiction pour constater que l'évolution qu'il imaginait dans les années 1930 se révèle une...

Crome Yellow is the first novel by British author Aldous Huxley. It was published in 1921. In the book, Huxley satirises the fads and fashions of the time. It is the witty story of a house party at "Crome" (a lightly veiled reference to Garsington Manor, a house where authors such as Huxley and T. S....

Uma sociedade inteiramente organizada segundo princípios científicos, na qual a mera menção das antiquadas palavras “pai” e “mãe” produzem repugnância. Um mundo de pessoas programadas em laboratório, e adestradas para cumprir seu papel numa sociedade de castas biologicamente definidas...

When Aldous Huxley's Brave New World first appeared in 1932, it presented in terms of purest fantasy a society bent on self-destruction. Few of its outraged critics anticipated the onset of another world war with its Holocaust and atomic ruin. In 1948, seeing that the probable shape of his anti-utopia...

Brave New World author Aldous Huxley on enlightenment and the "ultimate reality". In this anthology of twenty-six essays and other writings, Huxley discusses the nature of God, enlightenment, being, good and evil, religion, eternity, and the divine. Huxley consistently examined the spiritual...