Aldous Huxley

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....

With great wit and stunning intellect, Huxley examines the spiritual beliefs of various religious traditions and explains how they are united by a common human yearning....

Set in 2540 CE, Brave New World is a dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley that was published in 1932. The novel takes place in a futuristic society called The World State, where life revolves around science and efficiency....

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 both the individual and human society....

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 1632, an entire convent in the small French village of Loudun was apparently possessed by the devil....

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.'

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....

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 ...

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 pathbreaking physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize....

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...

Dystopian literature is a genre of fictional writing used to explore social and political structures in a nightmarish world....

The Doors of Perception (1954) which takes its title from a phrase in William Blake's poem "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell", describes the author’s experiences with peyote and mescaline in 1953....

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

This collection contains BBC Radio adaptations of Aldous Huxley’s finest works – plus a bonus documentary programme....

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.

Set in post-WWI England, this perennial favorite satirizes the fads and fashions of the time with the tale of a hapless couple who join a colorful mix of British aristocrats attending a party at a rural country estate....

Inaugurating Dove Audio's Modern Classics Collection - an eclectic compendium of the finest short fiction of the last 150 years...

A gripping BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Aldous Huxley's classic dystopian novel....