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Brave New World
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A satirical novel depicting a scientific and industrialized utopia in which Ford and Freud are worshipped, eugenics policies have eliminated class conflicts (while strengthening the division of the classes), and personal unhappiness is assuaged through drugs and pornography.
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Island
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This comic utopian novel is set in Pala, a tropical island in Southeast Asia inhabited by a group of Western exiles dedicated to the contemplative life. When Will Farnaby, an English journalist, comes to Pala, it is with the intention of securing oil leases for his publisher there. However, after trying some of the hallucinogenic mushrooms that ...
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Brave new world & brave new world revisited
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Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
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Huxley's own account of his experiments with mescaline, a drug derived from peyote and used by Native Americans in Mexico and the southwestern United States in religious ceremonies.
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The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood
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Elspeth Joscelin Grant Huxley
When her family set off to extend Britain's colonial settlements in Kenya to Thika, the author of this memoir was just a child, riding along in their cart. Her book recollects life growing up on her family's struggling farm, adventures in the jungle, and encounters with her family's Masai and Kikuyu neighbors.
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Doors of Perception
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In the early 1950s, distinguished novelist Aldous Huxley ingested mescaline and wrote about the experience in "The Doors of Perception". For Timothy Leary, the Merry Pranksters, Jim Morrison, and a whole generation of psychedelic seekers, Huxley's account became an essential touchstone. Here is the essay that influenced a generation of psychedelic ...
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The perennial philosophy
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This non-fiction work by the author of BRAVE NEW WORLD brings together a collection of mystical writings with psychological interpretations intended to expose the metaphysical threads that link many of the world's different faith systems.
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Point Counter Point
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Huxley's celebrated fictional portrait of London intellectuals in the 1920s includes such characters as the decadent painter John Bidlake and his son Walter, Walter's hapless wife Marjorie Carling, the vile fascist politician Everard Webley, the thoroughly unpleasant Maurice Spandrell, and a revolutionary named Illidge. These characters are offset ...
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Brave new world revisited
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An evaluation of the changes that society has undergone since the publication of BRAVE NEW WORLD in 1932, and an examination of the extent to which the book predicted the future.
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Devils of Loudun
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This account of an actual incident in French ecclesiastical history is recounted by Aldous Huxley, author of BRAVE NEW WORLD. A priest--overly handsome and easy with women--is accused of witchcraft; a convent of nuns is possessed by devils. When the townspeople take sides, the religious authorities intervene and try to condemn the priest and burn ...
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Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
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Swami Nikhilananda (Translator), A. Huxley (Designed by)
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Antic Hay
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In Huxley's classic of modernism, a satire of the London intellectual world after World War I, a group of bohemian poseurs pursue art, life, and happiness. Definitely a minor work, ANTIC HAY does manage to capture a particular milieu that Huxley knew well, and many of its unflatteringly portrayed characters are taken from life.
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Crome Yellow
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Aldous Huxley
Crome is an English country house to which Denis, an intensely self-conscious youth and would-be poet, goes to join a house party populated by a collection of eccentrics, spiritualists, psychoanalysands, aesthetes, and Communists. Denis falls in love with one of the guests but has an otherwise miserable time.
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The art of seeing
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The true story of how the nearly-blind English novelist Aldous Huxley recovered his vision. As a child, Huxley fell victim to a debilitating illness that left him for many years dependent upon strong eyeglasses. Eventually he discovered the Bates method of vision enhancement and succeeded so well at it that he was able to discard his eyeglasses ...
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Eyeless in Gaza
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Aldous Huxley's novel about a young man's slow coming of age during the early decades of the 20th century tells the story of Anthony Beavis, an intelligent boy whose mother dies during his childhood. Disillusioned by the war and further disheartened by the Depression, Anthony leaves England and travels about aimlessly. In Mexico, however, he meets ...
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Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors: This Is Ours
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Tim McGraw, Martin Huxley
In this photo-heavy autobiography, McGraw charts his rise to superstardom from his humble beginnings in Start, Louisiana, through his multiplatinum album sales and marriage to fellow country superstar Faith Hill.
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After Many a Summer Dies the Swan
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A satirical tale of greed and paranoia by the famed English novelist. It tells the story of a Hollywood millionaire obsessed with death who lives in an imitation castle surrounded by quack doctors and charlatan philosophers who try to convince him that he can prolong his life indefinitely by following their advice.
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Time must have a stop
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Sebastian Barnack, a 17-year-old London poet and aesthete, is refused a suit of evening clothes by his puritanical, politically radical father. Sebastian then leaves England for Florence, where his Uncle Eustace, the very antithesis of his father, promises the boy evening clothes and presents him with a Degas drawing. Abruptly thereafter, Uncle ...
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You Are Not the Target
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Laura A Huxley
The life partner of the famed Aldous Huxley offers practical wisdom on how to cope with stress, anxiety, competition, and the uncertainty of the times without going to pieces mentally or physically. You Are Not The Target offers over 30 "recipes" for living which show you how to change, how to influence the elements around you, and how to cope ...
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Mottled Lizard
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Ape and essence
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Aldous Huxley
This story of nuclear war and worldwide destruction, in the form of a film scenario, is set in Los Angeles in 2108. It portrays what remains of the world a century after the Third World War has left it in ruins. From spared New Zealand, a "Rediscovery Expedition to North America" has been dispatched, and it is from the experiences of Chief ...
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Those Barren Leaves
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Aldous Huxley
In this satire of English intellectuals and bohemians of the 1930s, Mrs. Aldwinkle's whose stately home is the playground of the suffering poet Chelifer, the epicurean philosopher Cardan, the flirtatious novelist Mary Thriplow, and a host of lesser lights of the the cultural firmament.
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Sewing Secrets from the Fashion Industry: Proven Methods to Help You Sew Like the Pros
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Susan Huxley (Editor)
From sample rooms to factory floors, this book reveals the best garment-sewing treatments, and combines them with informative photos, step-by-step instructions, and time-saving tips. 802 color photos. 10 color illustrations.
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African Poison Murders
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Elspeth Huxley
It all begins with gruesome pranks--decapitated pigeons, a mutilated dog. But soon tensions between German and English settlers in 1930s colonial Africa reach the breaking point, and a German farmer, suspected of Nazi sympathies, turns up dead.
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Collected Short Stories
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Aldous Huxley
A collection of 21 short stories by the author of BRAVE NEW WORLD.
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