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 Huxl...

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, th...

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 gene...

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. A highly...

"After the Fireworks is a major work and a turning point for Huxley, leading directly to Brave New World.” —Gary Giddins A striking collection of three lost classic pieces of short fiction by Aldous Huxley, auth...

Portraying the revolving clash between class ideals, Antic Hay is a stunning cultural critique on life in London circa 1923. With a sharp comedic edge, author Aldous Huxley delivers a novel of ideas aimed at characterizing the unsettl...

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 Zealan...

Aldous Huxley's tour de force Brave New World is a darkly satiric vision of a 'utopian' future - where humans are genetically bred and pharmaceutically anesthesized to passively serve a ruling order. A powerful work of speculative fi...

Written at the height of his powers immediately after Brave New World, Aldous Huxley's highly acclaimed Eyeless in Gaza is his most personal novel. Huxley's bold, nontraditional narrative tells the loosely autobiographical story of An...

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 underwa...

Mortal Coils is the famous book of short stories (and a play) by Aldous Huxley. Mortal Coils includes the following stories: The Gioconda Smile Permutations Among the Nightingales The Tillotson Banquet Green Tunnels Nuns at Lunche...

Point Counter Point' is the modern 'Vanity Fair', and Mr. Huxley is the Thackeray 'de nos jours'....It might have been said in its own day that 'Vanity Fair' was the richest novel in substance and the most comprehensive that had appea...

Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894 -1963) was an English writer and a member of the famous Huxley family. He is best known for his novel Brave New World. Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and published short stories, poetry, tra...

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, ete...

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 Maartensâ€...

The Perennial Philosophy is defined by its author as 'The metaphysic that recognizes a divine Reality substantial to the world of things and lives and minds.' With great wit and stunning intellect, Aldous Huxley examines the spiritual...

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, ...

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 o...

Sebastian Barnack, a handsome English schoolboy, goes to Italy for the summer, and there his real education begins. His teachers are two quite different men: Bruno Rontini, the saintly bookseller, who teaches him about things spir...

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