Aldous Huxley: 83 books

Mortal Coils is a collection of five short fictional pieces written by Aldous Huxley in 1921. The stories all concern themselves with some sort of trouble, normally of an amorous nature, and often ending with disappointment. (Wikipedia)

È il primo libro importante pubblicato di Krishnamurti, uno dei grandi maestri del nostro tempo. Come scrive Aldous Huxley nella prefazione, per ogni individuo il problema umano centrale può essere risolto in un solo e unico modo: da se stesso e per se stesso. È questo l'insegnamento di Krishnamurti, reso in un linguaggio libero da inibizioni e ipocrisia.

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Limbo (1920), Aldous Huxley's first collection of short fiction, consists of six short stories and a play. "Farcical History of Richard Greenow" "Happily Ever After" "Eupompus Gave Splendour to Art by Numbers" "Happy Families" (play) "Cynthia" "The Bookshop" "The Death of Lully"

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Die beiden epochemachenden Essays Aldous Huxleys berichten von Entdeckugsreisen zu den "Antipoden unseres Bewusstseins", in Regionen des Seins, die nur im Zustand der Entrückung zu erreichen sind, In den "Pforten der Wahrnehmung" schildert Huxley seine Experimente mit Meskalin, die zu einer außerordentlichen...

«Philosophia Perennis: la definizione fu coniata da Leibniz ma la cosa in sé è universale e al di fuori del tempo. È una metafisica che riconosce una Realtà divina consustanziale al mondo delle cose, delle vite e delle menti; è una psicologia che scopre nell’anima qualcosa di simile alla Realtà...

An English writer, philosopher and a prominent member of the Huxley family. Contents The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems Mortal Coils (1921) Crome Yellow (1921) The Burning Wheel (1916) Crome Yellow (1921) A witty recounting of a house party, wherein Huxley satirises the fads and fashions...

Más allá del Golfo de México narra los incidentes del viaje hecho por Huxley a través de Centroamérica, el Caribe y el sur de México, donde los paisajes, las personas y los múltiples incidentes sirvieron como punto de partida para sus diversas reflexiones entorno al arte, la política, la cultura...

Thirty years ago, ecstasy and torment took hold of John Rivers, shocking him out of “half-baked imbecility into something more nearly resembling the human form.” He had an affair with the wife of his mentor, Henry Maartens—a pathbreaking physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize, and a figure of...

Published in 1922, this second collection of short fiction by Huxley contains his most famous story, "The Gioconda Smile," a murder mystery filmed in 1947 as A Woman's Vengeance, "The Tillotson Banquet," in which an artist may not be as dead as he seems, and "Green Tunnels," about a young girl's romantic disillusionment.

En Un mundo feliz rige la tríada Comunidad, Identidad, Estabilidad. La Comunidad define un estadio en el cual todo individuo está incondicionalmente subordinado al funcionamiento del todo, la Identidad significa la anulación de las diferencias individuales, la Estabilidad implica el final de toda...

Ao lado desse episódio verídico, os preconceitos e os dogmas em que mergulhava a França da época constituem os elementos a partir dos quais Huxley realiza uma profunda investigação sobra a natureza da vida espiritual analisando principalmente a possessão como uma realidade que tem lugar dentro e fora da psique humana.

Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining...