Brave New World

Literature & Fiction

HUXLEY, ALDOUS

Classics

Harper Uk

Island

For over a hundred years, the inhabitants of the Pacific island of Pala have been part of a social experiment whereby western science has been brought together with eastern philosophy and humanism to create a paradise on earth. In Island, Huxley gives us his vision of Utopia.

Contemporary

Flamingo

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.

Ape and Essence (Flamingo Modern Classics)

In 1634, Urbain Grandier, a seducer and priest of the parish of Loudun, was burned at the stake. He had been found guilty of causing the supernatural possession of a prioress and her nuns. Despite torture he had refused to confess, and four years after his death the nuns were still "possessed"

The Devils of Loudun (Flamingo Modern Classics)

Religion & Spirituality

Occult & Paranormal

“Futilitarian” best describes the type of desultory, pleasure-seeking intellectual Huxley pinned so mercilessly to the literary map in Antic Hay. Wickedly funny and deliciously barbed, the novel epitomizes the glittering neuroticism of post-First World War London.

Antic Hay (Flamingo Modern Classics)

The life of Father Joseph, Cardinal Richelieu's aide, was a monstrous paradox. After a day spent in directing operations on the battlefield Father Joseph would pass the night in prayer, or in composing spiritual guidance for the nuns in his care. He was an aspirant to sainthood, a practising mystic, yet his ruthless exercise of power succeeded in prolonging the Thirty Years War, with all its unspeakable horrors. How a religious man could lead such a life, how an individual could reconcile the seemingly opposing moral systems of religion and politics, was a theme to which Huxley would continuously return.

Grey Eminence (Flamingo Modern Classics)

Biographies & Memoirs

Harpercollins

Those Barren Leaves (Flamingo Modern Classics)

<p>1994: by Aldous Huxley- Huxley has put so much of his personality and style into this book that it should interest everybody, what ever the condition of their sight.</p>

The Art of Seeing (Flamingo Modern Classics)

Medical Books

<p>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 over Pala and events begin to move when an agent of the conspirators, a newspaperman named Faranby, is shipwrecked there. What Faranby doesn't expect is how his time with the people of Pala will revolutionize all his values and -- to his amazement -- give him hope.</p>

Island (Perennial Classics)

Humor & Satire

Harper Perennial Modern Classics

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Brave New World

Island

Ape and Essence (Flamingo Modern Classics)

The Devils of Loudun (Flamingo Modern Classics)

Antic Hay (Flamingo Modern Classics)

Grey Eminence (Flamingo Modern Classics)

Those Barren Leaves (Flamingo Modern Classics)

The Art of Seeing (Flamingo Modern Classics)

Brave New World

Island (Perennial Classics)