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...

On the 75th anniversary of its publication, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today than ever before....

The critically acclaimed novelist and social critic Aldous Huxley, describes his personal experimentation with the drug mescaline and explores the nature of visionary experience....

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 surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to...

Though somewhat overshadowed by Brave New World and The Doors of Perception, Huxley's modernist novel Eyeless in Gaza (1936) is often regarded as his finest work. The writer and historian Simon Heffer dubbed it, unequivocally, ‘his only great novel.' The plot centers on Anthony Beavis, a...

Soixante ans après la mort du grand écrivain Aldous Huxley, son chef-d'œuvre, Le Meilleur des Mondes, dans une nouvelle traduction de Josée Kamoun. Un roman ...

Brave New World, narrated by Huxley himself, with a complicated sound-effects score....

In 1632, an entire convent in the small French village of Loudun was apparently possessed by the devil. After a sensational and celebrated trial, the convent's charismatic priest Urban Grandier - accused of spiritually and sexually seducing the nuns in his charge - was convicted of being in...

Un mundo feliz es la novela más famosa del escritor británico Aldous Huxley, publicada por primera vez en 1932. La novela es una distopía que anticipa el desarrollo en tecnología reproductiva....

In 1958, 27 years after Aldous Huxley wrote "Brave New World", he took another look at his remarkable fable and résumé the development since. His...

Brave New World author Aldous Huxley on enlightenment and the "ultimate reality." In this anthology of 26 essays and other writings, Huxley discusses the nature of God, enlightenment, being, good and evil, religion, eternity, and the divine. Huxley consistently examined the spiritual basis of...

For its premiere episodes, The CBS Radio Workshop aired a two-part adaptation of Brave New World, featuring its author, Aldous Huxley, as narrator....

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...

A gripping BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Aldous Huxley's classic dystopian novel. It's 2116, and Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson are token rebels in an irretrievably corrupted society where promiscuity is the norm, eugenics a respectable science, and morality turned upside down. There...

Enjoy the great detectives of the Golden Age of classic mysteries in this unique collection of audio whodunits....

Young Oxford tutor Theodore Gumbril has become thoroughly dismayed by the formality of college life and the staid British institutions of learning. An impetuous need for celebration, even rebellion, possesses him...

The lifestyles, careers, romances, and peccadillos of various British intellectuals, scientists, and artists are dealt with - often with hilarity and sometimes with dark comedy and sophisticated banter. All of this is set off by the ingenious idea of self-inflating pants....

Unlike the dystopian vision described in Brave New World, or the psychedelic vision described in his The Doors of Perception, in The Art of Seeing, Aldous Huxley focuses on the actual vision of the human eye.

In Point Counter Point, the polarity between passion and reason in the intellectual life of the 1920s is demonstrated both in form and in theme in Aldous Huxley’s ambitious satire....

This wonderful collection of 18 short stories includes work by some of literature's most treasured names....