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Pocket, Svenska, 2003
99 kr
Du sköna nya värld, den kanske mest berömda av alla framtidsskildringar, skrevs redan 1932. I dag har flera av bokens mardrömsscenarier blivit verklighet. Det förefaller som om vi befinner oss närmare romanens dystopi än någonsin.
I framtiden har gentekniken utvecklat människan intill perfektion. I den nya världen finns inga gamla, sjuka eller olyckliga människor. Livet är sorglöst och okomplicerat. Människan har befriats från alla känslomässiga bindningar och kan ohämmat ägna sig åt konsumtion och tillfälliga sexuella kontakter. Tillvaron är inriktad på omedelbar lyckomaximering. Den nya världen är ett sinnenas paradis och skulle något gå fel finns alltid lyckodrogen soma.
"Provocerande, stimulerande, chockerande och bländande"/The Observer
"Skarpsinnig, logisk, kvicktänkt och elegant. Huxleys ironi och bitska samhällskritik har aldrig formulerats briljantare än här"/The Times
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
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Aldous Huxley’s 1932 dystopian classic Brave New World predicts – with eerie clarity – a terrifying vision of the future, which feels ever closer to our own reality.'The best science fiction book ever, definitely the most prescient…’ Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens and Homo Deus ‘A masterpiece of speculation... As vibrant, fresh, and somehow shocking as it was when I first read it’ Margaret Atwood Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress...Huxley's ingenious fantasy of the future sheds a blazing light on the present and is considered to be his most enduring masterpiece. WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY MARGARET ATWOOD AND DAVID BRADSHAWA grave warning... Provoking, stimulating, shocking and dazzling' Observer
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
199 kr
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Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress...
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
113 kr
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Discover this profound account of Huxley's famous experimentation with mescalin that has influenced writers and artists for decades.‘Concise, evocative, wise and, above all, humane, The Doors of Perception is a masterpiece’ Sunday TimesIn 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gram 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 transformed. Huxley described his experience with breathtaking immediacy in The Doors of Perception. In its sequel Heaven and Hell, he goes on to explore the history and nature of mysticism. Still bristling with a sense of excitement and discovery, these illuminating and influential writings remain the most fascinating account of the visionary experience ever written.WITH A FOREWORD J.G. BALLARD
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
239 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2007
128 kr
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In a future London, governed by genetic engineering , Bernard Marx begins to question a society that has abolished family, privacy, and history in the name of stability.In the World State, citizens are conditioned from birth and kept docile through consumerism and the drug, Soma. But when Bernard encounters John, a man raised outside this system, the fragile logic of enforced happiness begins to fracture.Through Bernard Marx and John, Huxley examines freedom, moral responsibility, and the human need for meaning.This classic work of dystopian literary fiction explores identity, alienation, and the suppression of individuality within a world engineered for obedience.'A masterpiece of speculation... As vibrant, fresh, and somehow shocking as it was when I first read it' Margaret Atwood'A grave warning... Provoking, stimulating, shocking and dazzling' Observer.**One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
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A beautiful hardback edition of Huxley's inconic dystopian classic, introduced by Yuval Noah Harari'A masterpiece of speculation... As vibrant, fresh, and somehow shocking as it was when I first read it' Margaret Atwood'If you have time for just one book, this would be my top choice' Yuval Noah HarariWelcome to New London. Everybody is happy here.Our perfect society achieves peace and stability by dispensing with 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.This is the brave new world of Aldous Huxley's deeply sinister and prophetic novel, a society based on maximum pleasure and complete surveillance - no matter the cost.'Provoking, stimulating, shocking and dazzling' Observer'Such ingenious wit, derisive logic and swiftness of expression' The TimesVintage Quarterbound Classics: Bound to be beautiful
Inbunden, Svenska, 2020
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Los Angeles, en förmiddag i maj 1953. Den berömde författaren Aldous Huxley, 59 år gammal, intar fyra tiondels gram meskalin för att i sällskap med hustrun och läkaren notera vad som händer. Han får lyssna på Mozart, känna på bokryggarna i biblioteket, betrakta renässansmålningar och blicka ut över Änglarnas stad från Hollywoods höjder. När han återvänder från sin upplevelse för att sammanfatta den kommer han att tänka på William Blakes dikt om porten till andra världen.
En port till andra världen är kultklassikern som för evigt satte de psykedeliska, eller sinnesutvidgande, drogerna på kartan. Dess storhet ligger inte bara i den sakliga skildringen utan också i Huxleys associationer till parallella verkligheter och andliga dimensioner som påverkade den spirande amerikanska motkulturen som ingen annan.
Här presenteras essän tillsammans med ett förord av Carl-Michael Edenborg och de svenska recensionerna från 1954, bland annat en av Gunnar Ekelöf.
Bokens omslag är värmekänsligt och dess form framträder när man håller sin hand mot omslaget.
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
229 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2005
129 kr
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For over a hundred years the Pacific island of Pala has been the scene of a unique experiment in civilisation. Its inhabitants live in a society where western science has been brought together with Eastern philosophy to create a paradise on earth. When cynical journalist, Will Farnaby, arrives to research potential oil reserves on Pala, he quickly falls in love with the way of life on the island. Soon the need to complete his mission becomes an intolerable burden and he must make a difficult choice.In counterpoint to Brave New World and Ape and Essence, in Island Huxley gives us his vision of utopia.WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION BY DAVID BRADSHAW
Häftad, Engelska, 1992
274 kr
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Aldous Huxley's stature as one of the giants of modern English prose and of social commentary in our time is confirmed in this gathering of his distinguished stories into a single volume. Twenty-one pieces are here, including "The Gioconda Smile," "Little Mexican," "Young Archimedes," and "Chawdron." Together they offer a complete view of Huxley's work in the genre, in which he established himself as an acknowledged master.
Häftad, Engelska, 2005
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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 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.
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
252 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2004
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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 control. Nearly thirty years later in Brave New World Revisited, Huxley checked the progress of his prophecies against reality and argued that many of his fictional fantasies had grown uncomfortably close to the truth. Brave New World Revisited includes Huxley's views on overpopulation, propaganda, advertising and government control, and is an urgent and powerful appeal for the defence of individualism still alarmingly relevant today.
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID BRADSHAWThe 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 girls for the sake of entertainment, while the withdrawn writer, Philip, finds himself drawn to the dangerous political charm of Everard. As they all engage in dazzling and witty conversation, the din of the age - its ideas and idiocies - grows deafening.
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
131 kr
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WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY MARGARET ATWOOD AND DAVID BRADSHAWFar in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress...Huxley's ingenious fantasy of the future sheds a blazing light on the present and is considered to be his most enduring masterpiece.**One of the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
272 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2006
254 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2009
272 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2009
272 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2009
156 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2009
237 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2016
254 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
261 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2025
206 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2026
206 kr
Kommande
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
131 kr
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID BRADSHAWAnthony Beavis is a man inclined to recoil from life. His past is haunted by the death of his best friend Brian and by his entanglement with the cynical and manipulative Mary Amberley. 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 live. Eyeless in Gaza is considered by many to be Huxley's definitive work of fiction.
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
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WITH A FOREWORD BY DAVID LODGEWhen inspiration leads Theodore Gumbril to design a type of pneumatic trouser cushion to ease the discomfort of sedentary life, he decides the time has come to give up teaching and seek his fortune in the metropolis. He soon finds himself caught up in the hedonistic world of his friends Mercaptan, Lypiatt and the thoroughly civilised Myra Viveash, and his burning ambitions begin to lose their urgency. . .Wickedly funny and deliciously barbed, Antic Hay epitomises the glittering neuroticism of the twenties.
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
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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 things'. His hosts, Henry Wimbush and his exotic wife Priscilla, are joined by a party of outlandish guests whose intrigues and opinions ensure Denis's attemps to woo the young Anne Wimbush are met with every possible obstacle.First published in 1921, Crome Yellow was Aldous Huxley's much-acclaimed debut novel.
Häftad, Engelska, 2005
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A dystopian classicIn February 2108, the New Zealand Rediscovery Expedition reaches California at last. It is over a century since the world was devastated by nuclear war, but the blight of radioactivity and disease still gnaws away at the survivors. The expedition expects to find physical destruction but they are quite unprepared for the moral degradation they meet. Ape and Essence is Huxley's vision of the ruin of humanity, told with all his knowledge and imaginative genius.