Aldous Huxley

Huxley's classic prophetic novel describes the socialized horrors of a futuristic utopia devoid of individual freedom

Brave New World

The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell (Perennial Classics)

A shipwrecked journalist discovers the beauty and serentity promoted by science on the island of Pala.

Island

WITH A FOREWORD J.G. BALLARD 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 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.

And Heaven and Hell

The Doors of Perception

Cesur Yeni Dünya

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 beliefs of various religious traditions and explains them in terms that are personally meaningful.

The Perennial Philosophy

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.

Brave New World Revisited

Um clássico moderno, o romance distópico de Aldous Huxley é indispensável para quem busca leituras sobre autoritarismo, manipulação genética, ficção especulativa e outros temas que, embora tenham surgido com força durante a primeira metade do século XX, se tornam cada dia mais atuais. Em uma sociedade organizada segundo princípios estritamente científicos, Bernard Marx, um psicólogo, sente-se inadequado quando se compara aos outros seres de sua casta. Ao descobrir uma “reserva histórica” que preserva costumes de uma sociedade anterior – muito semelhante à do leitor – Bernard vai perceber as diferenças entre esta civilização e a sua – e a partir de um sentimento de inconformismo ele desafiará o mundo. A história de Bernard se passa em um ambiente em que a literatura, a música e o cinema só têm a função de solidificar a alienação; um universo que louva o avanço da técnica, a produção em série, a uniformidade contra a diversidade. Muitas das previsões de Huxley vieram a ser confirmadas anos mais tarde, como a tecnologia reprodutiva, as supostas técnicas de aprendizado durante o sono e a manipulação pelo condicionamento psicológico. Ao lado de obras como Fahrenheit 451, de Ray Bradbury e 1984, de George Orwell, que criticavam os governos totalitários de esquerda e de direita, Admirável Mundo Novo figura na lista dos livros mais relevantes e influentes de todos os tempos. O clássico de Huxley não é somente um hábil exercício de futurismo ou de ficção científica, mas um olhar acerca do autoritarismo no mundo desde que o livro foi publicado, em 1932, e que continua a nos assombrar.

Admirável mundo novo

A comical cast of outlandish characters has gathered in the small English town of Crome for a social outing at the estate of Henry Wimbush. Among the odd, learned guests are a highly prolific writer; an idealist with plans for a "Rational State"; and a sensitive poet haplessly in love with Wimbush's niece.

Crome Yellow

Eyeless in Gaza offers a counterpoint to the biting cynicism of Huxley's earlier satirical novels, and is considered by many to be his definitive work of fiction.

Eyeless in Gaza

Point counter point

Jo Stoyte, an unscrupulous and self-indulgent Hollywood tycoon, launches a search for the man who has discovered immortality

After Many a Summer Dies the Swan

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.

The Devils of Loudun

Atomic and biological warfare have already destroyed most of the earth when, in the twenty-second century, an expedition is sent forth from New Zealand to explore North America

Ape and Essence

Algi Kapilari Cennet ve Cehennem

Mondo nuovo-Ritorno al mondo nuovo

Selected writings from the author of Brave New World and The Doors of Perception on the role of psychedelics in society. • Includes letters and lectures by Huxley never published elsewhere. In May 1953 Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gram of mescaline. The mystical and transcendent experience that followed set him off on an exploration that was to produce a revolutionary body of work about the inner reaches of the human mind. Huxley was decades ahead of his time in his anticipation of the dangers modern culture was creating through explosive population increase, headlong technological advance, and militant nationalism, and he saw psychedelics as the greatest means at our disposal to "remind adults that the real world is very different from the misshapen universe they have created for themselves by means of their culture-conditioned prejudices." Much of Huxley's writings following his 1953 mescaline experiment can be seen as his attempt to reveal the power of these substances to awaken a sense of the sacred in people living in a technological society hostile to mystical revelations. Moksha, a Sanskrit word meaning "liberation," is a collection of the prophetic and visionary writings of Aldous Huxley. It includes selections from his acclaimed novels Brave New World and Island, both of which envision societies centered around the use of psychedelics as stabilizing forces, as well as pieces from The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell, his famous works on consciousness expansion.

Aldous Huxley's Classic Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience

Moksha

Island (P.S.)

"This is Mr. Huxley's best novel for a very long time . . . admirably constructed . . . bright and sun-pierced." New Statesman and Nation

Aldous Huxley

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