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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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Brave new world & brave new world revisited
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Doors of Perception and 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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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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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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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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The Handbook of Non-Violence: Including an Encyclopedia of Pacifism by Aldous Huxley
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Robert Seeley, Aldous Huxley
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Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
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Swami Nikhilananda (Translator), A. Huxley (Designed by)
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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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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 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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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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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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Collected Short Stories
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Aldous Huxley
Twenty-one distinguished stories, confirming Huxley's stature as one of the giants of modern English prose and of social commentary in our time.
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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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Doors of Perception
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In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes everything was transformed. Huxley described his experience in "The Doors of Perception" and its sequel "Heaven and Hell".
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Antic Hay
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Aldous Huxley
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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Time must have a stop
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Aldous Huxley
Sebastian is a young man with the beauty of an angel, the creative power of a great artist and the tiresomeness of a spoilt child. His life in London is dominated by a repressive father, but when Uncle Eustace whisks him away to the splendours of a Florentine palace, life becomes more interesting.
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Those Barren Leaves
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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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The genius and the goddess
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Aldous Huxley
Into the household of physicist Henry Maartens enters Rivers, a scientist who stands in awe of both Maartens and his beautiful wife, Katy. But when the genius ails, and Katy, seeking temporary solace, takes the scientist to bed, Rivers is left to reflect on the uncertain grace of an earth-goddess.
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The Crows of Pearblossom
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Aldous Huxley
When Mrs. Crow discovers a snake has been eating her eggs, Mr. Crow and his friend Owl fool Mr. Snake and put an end to that problem.
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Zen and the Psychology of Transformation: The Supreme Doctrine
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Hubert Benoit, Aldous Huxley (Introduction by)
The Supreme Doctrine applies the essence of Oriental Wisdom to the pursuit of self-knowledge and transcendence. The first step in a holistic psychology is to begin examining the true "state of man," rather than his aberrations. In so doing, we can activate our true potential to transform and give new direction and purpose to our lives.
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Complete Essays: Volume I: Aldous Huxley, 1920-1925
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Aldous Huxley, Robert S Baker (Editor), James Sexton (Editor)
A gathering of all of Huxley's published essays from the early '20s, including travel pieces and music reviews.
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Complete Essays: Volume VI: Aldous Huxley, 1956-1963
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Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker (Editor), James Sexton (Editor)
These six volumes collect the complete essays of one of the giants of modern English prose and of social commentary in our time. At their best, Huxley's essays stand among the finest examples of the genre in modern literature. His place in English literature is unique and is certainly assured.-T.S. Eliot. He was among the few writers who...played ...
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