Island

Island PDF

Author: Aldous Huxley

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2014-01-01

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 1443428582

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While shipwrecked on the island of Pala, Will Farnaby, a disenchanted journalist, discovers a utopian society that has flourished for the past 120 years. Although he at first disregards the possibility of an ideal society, as Farnaby spends time with the people of Pala his ideas about humanity change. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

Aldous Huxley 2009

Aldous Huxley 2009 PDF

Author: James Sexton

Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

Published: 2011-03-30

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 364310846X

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Aldous Huxley Annual is the official organ of the Aldous Huxley Society at the Center for Aldous Huxley Studies in Munster, Germany. The Society publishes essays on the life, times, and interests of Aldous Huxley and his circle. Volume 9 is the first to have a Guest Editor: Professor James Sexton. Sexton opens this issue with "A New Huxley Miscellany," which is followed by a selection of lectures from the Fourth International Aldous Huxley Symposium held in Los Angeles in July/August 2008. The issue closes with the first Peter Edgerly Firchow Memorial Prize Essay by Brian Smith of Suffolk University. (Series: Aldous Huxley Annual - Vol. 9)

Eyeless in Gaza

Eyeless in Gaza PDF

Author: Aldous Huxley

Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 473

ISBN-13: 9780786702640

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Aldous Huxley- a major figure of the literary and intellectual history of this century- dramatizes here one man's disillusionment threatening to plunge the world into a new morass.

The Perennial Philosophy

The Perennial Philosophy PDF

Author: Aldous Huxley

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2012-02-14

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 0061893315

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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 place in every one of the higher religions." With great wit and stunning intellect—drawing on a diverse array of faiths, including Zen Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Christian mysticism, and Islam—Huxley examines the spiritual beliefs of various religious traditions and explains how they are united by a common human yearning to experience the divine. The Perennial Philosophy includes selections from Meister Eckhart, Rumi, and Lao Tzu, as well as the Bhagavad Gita, Tibetan Book of the Dead, Diamond Sutra, and Upanishads, among many others.

Ape and Essence

Ape and Essence PDF

Author: Aldous Huxley

Publisher: Ivan R. Dee

Published: 1992-08-01

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 146174136X

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When Aldous Huxley's Brave New World first appeared in 1932, it presented in terms of purest fantasy a society bent on self-destruction. Few of its outraged critics anticipated the onset of another world war with its Holocaust and atomic ruin. In 1948, seeing that the probable shape of his anti-utopia had been altered inevitably by the facts of history, Huxley wrote Ape and Essence. In this savage novel, using the form of a film scenario, he transports us to the year 2108. The setting is Los Angeles where a "rediscovery expedition" from New Zealand is trying to make sense of what is left. From chief botanist Alfred Poole we learn, to our dismay, about the twenty-second-century way of life. "It was inevitable that Mr. Huxley should have written this book: one could almost have seen it since Hiroshima is the necessary sequel to Brave New World."—Alfred Kazin. "The book has a certain awesome impressiveness; its sheer intractable bitterness cannot but affect the reader."—Time.

Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley PDF

Author: Raychel Haugrud Reiff

Publisher: Marshall Cavendish

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9780761447016

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An in-depth analysis of Aldous Huxley, his writings, and the historical time period in which they were written.

After the Fireworks

After the Fireworks PDF

Author: Aldous Huxley

Publisher: Modern Voices

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781843914051

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As an acclaimed novelist, Miles Fanning is well used to the unwanted attentions of his fans as he goes about his daily business. Yet little prepares him for the determination of the gauche Pamela Tarn who resolves to enter not only his world, but also his bed. Initially repelled by the enormity of the age gap between them, Fanning vows never to acquiesce, and resorts to his most boorish behavior in an attempt to break the hold he unwittingly has over her. Yet as they are inexorably drawn together, they embark upon a tempestuous—and ultimately destructive—affair.

The Devils of Loudun

The Devils of Loudun PDF

Author: Aldous Huxley

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2010-05-25

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 1409079503

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A gripping biography by the author of Brave New World In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake. He had been found guilty of conspiring with the devil to seduce an entire convent of nuns. Grandier maintained his innocence to the end but four years after his death the nuns were still being subjected to exorcisms to free them from their demonic bondage. Huxley's vivid account of this bizarre tale of religious and sexual obsession transforms our understanding of the medieval world.

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