Aldous Huxley - Böcker

Du sköna nya värld som skrevs redan 1932, är en av de stora, världsberömda framtidsskildringarna. I dag, 70 år senare, är vi nästan där.

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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 in feeling discontent. Ha...

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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 f&arin...

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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 yo...

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The Doors of perception originally published in 1954 and Heaven and hell originally published in 1956.

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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 Times In 195...

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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....

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Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the no...

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Du sköna nya värld, skriven redan 1932, är en av de stora och världsberömda framtidsskildringarna. Idag är vi nästan där.

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A sumptuous gift edition to mark the 90th anniversary of first publication. With an Introduction by Yuval Noah Harari. 'A masterpiece of speculation... As vibrant, fresh, and somehow shocking as it was when I first read it' Margaret Atwo...

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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...

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In his final novel, which he considered his most important, Aldous Huxley transports us to the remote Pacific island of Pala, where an ideal society has flourished for 120 years. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the...

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Aldous Huxley's acclaimed and gripping account of one of the strangest occurrences in history In 1643 an entire convent in the small French village of Loudun was apparently possessed by the devil. After a sensational and celebrated trial, the conv...

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Available in graphic novel form for the first time, "one of the most prophetic dystopian works of the twentieth century” ( Wall Street Journal ) Aldous Huxley's classic novel of authoritarianism Brave New World, adapted and illustrated ...

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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...

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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 genet...

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MALCOLM BRADBURY Denis 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 join...

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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 p...

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Twenty-one distinguished stories, confirming HuxleyUs stature as one of the giants of modern English prose and of social commentary in our time. RA very good book.SQV. S. Pritchett.

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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, Huxleys debut novel, satirizes the society of Englands intellectual and political elite. I...

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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 underway to take ove...

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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, eternity, and...

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Jo Stoyte is afraid of death. But Stoyte is also a millionaire, and so he pours his riches into scientific research, desperate to find the secret of immortality. This ruthless quest will enmesh everyone around him in a web of greed, seduction, mur...

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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 e...

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Welcome 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 So...

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID BRADSHAW Anthony 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 dete...

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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 ...

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WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY MARGARET ATWOOD AND DAVID BRADSHAW 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 cons...

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Mit «Along the Road» lernen wir Aldous Huxley, den Autor der visionären Dystopie «Schöne Neue Welt», von einer bisher kaum bekannten Seite kennen: als großen Reiseschriftsteller. Huxley führt uns durch das Europa der Zwanziger, eine Welt im Umbruc...

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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 Maartens--a pathbreakin...

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