Genius and the Goddess (Huxley Aldous)(Paperback / softback)

Genius and the Goddess (Huxley Aldous)(Paperback / softback)

It is Christmas Eve, and John Rivers is thinking about the past; about his sheltered upbringing; about an extraordinary time spent as a lab assistant to the great physicist Henry Maartens; about Maartens' beautiful wife, Katy, and about a love affair which shook Rivers to the core and caused him to

Aldous Huxley (Poller Jake)(Paperback)

A rich and lucid account of Aldous Huxley's life and work. Aldous Huxley was one of the twentieth century's most prescient thinkers. This new biography charts the different phases of Huxley's life and writing: from the early satirist who depicted the glamorous despair of the postwar generation to

Island (Huxley Aldous)(Paperback)

The final novel from Aldous Huxley, Island is a provocative counterpoint to his worldwide classic Brave New World, in which a flourishing, ideal society located on a remote Pacific island attracts the envy of the outside world.--Saturday

Psychedelics - Vintage Minis (Huxley Aldous)(Paperback / softback)

Could drugs offer a new way of seeing the world? 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, from the flowers in a vase to the creases in his trousers, was

Ape and Essence (Huxley Aldous)(Paperback / softback)

A dystopian classicIn February 2108, the New Zealand Rediscovery Expedition reaches California at last. The expedition expects to find physical destruction but they are quite unprepared for the moral degradation they

Devils of Loudun (Huxley Aldous)(Paperback / softback)

A gripping biography by the author of Brave New WorldIn 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt at the

Brave New World Revisited (Huxley Aldous)(Paperback / softback)

In his 1932 classic dystopian novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley depicted a future society in thrall to science and regulated by sophisticated methods of social

Brave New World - Special 3D Edition (Huxley Aldous)(Paperback / softback)

WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY MARGARET ATWOOD AND DAVID BRADSHAWFar in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal

Brave New World (Huxley Aldous)(Paperback)

Brave New World is a novel written in 1931 by Aldous Huxley and published in 1932. Set in London in the year AD 2540 (632 A.F.-'After Ford'-in the book), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and classical conditioning that

Crome Yellow (Huxley Aldous)(Paperback)

Crome Yellow (1921) is a novel by English author Aldous Huxley. Inspired by his stay at Garsington Manor with members of the Bloomsbury Group, Crome Yellow, Huxley's debut novel, satirizes the society of England's intellectual and political elite. In addition to its autobiographical content, the

Brave New World (Huxley Aldous)(Paperback / softback)

Brave New World predicts - with eerie clarity - a terrifying vision of the

Point Counter Point (Huxley Aldous)(Paperback / softback)

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID BRADSHAW The dilettantes who frequent Lady Tantamount's society parties are determined to push forward the moral frontiers of the age. Marjorie has left her family to live with Walter; Walter is in love with the luscious but cold-hearted Lucy; Maurice deflowers young

The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell (Huxley Aldous)(Paperback)

'A genuine spiritual quest. . . . Extraordinary.' -- New York TimesAmong the most profound and influential explorations of mind-expanding psychedelic drugs ever written, here are two complete classic books--The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell--in which Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New

Grey Eminence (Huxley Aldous)(Paperback / softback)

A gripping biography by the author of Brave New WorldThe life of Father Joseph, Cardinal Richelieu's aide, was a shocking paradox. After spending his days directing operations on the battlefield, Father Joseph would pass the night in prayer, or in composing spiritual guidance for the nuns in his

Island (Huxley Aldous)(Paperback / softback)

For over a hundred years the Pacific island of Pala has been the scene of a unique experiment in

Aldous Huxley - An English Intellectual (Murray Nicholas)(Paperback / softback)

* Fascinating and perceptive new biography of one of the most brilliant writers of his age: novelist, essayist and born-again mystic Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), author of BRAVE NEW WORLD and EYELESS IN

Brave New World: York Notes Advanced - everything you need to catch up, study and prepare for 2021 assessments and 2022 exams (Huxley Aldous)(Paperback / softback)

Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals (Huxley Aldous)(Paperback)

Contemporary intellectuals still struggle over the relationship of ends to means, especially in political discourse. Pacifism is still an important topic today, as terrorism and dictatorial states abound. Many will find solace in Ends and Means, while others will find the book only a case study of

Eyeless in Gaza (Huxley Aldous)(Paperback / softback)

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID BRADSHAWAnthony Beavis is a man inclined to recoil from life. Realising that his determined detachment from the world has been motivated not by intellectual honesty but by moral cowardice, Anthony attempts to find a new way to

Brave New World (Huxley Aldous)(Paperback / softback)

Welcome to New London. Everybody is happy here. Our perfect society achieved peace and stability through the prohibition of monogamy, privacy, money, family and history itself. Now everyone belongs.You can be happy too. All you need to do is take your Soma pills.Discover the brave new world of

We (Zamyatin Yevgeny)(Paperback)

This classic Russian dystopian novel inspired George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, and many other science fiction writers, and now this reprint of the original 1924 translation of We is available from Dover. Set in a future under a unified totalitarian state, in a society ruled by conformity and where

Crome Yellow (Huxley Aldous)(Paperback / softback)

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MALCOLM BRADBURYDenis Stone, a naive young poet, is invited to stay at Crome, a country house renowned for its gatherings of 'bright young

The Perennial Philosophy (Huxley Aldous)(Paperback)

An inspired gathering of religious writings that reveals the 'divine reality' common to all faiths, collected by Aldous Huxley'The Perennial Philosophy,' Aldous Huxley writes, 'may be found among the traditional lore of peoples in every region of the world, and in its fully developed forms it has a

We (Zamyatin Yevgeny)(Pevná vazba)

A radical new translation of the dystopian classic that influenced George Orwell and Aldous Huxley, introduced by Margaret