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The Olive Tree and Other Essays 1936
What Are You Going to Do About It?: The Case for Constructive Peace 1936
Ends and Means: An Enquiry into the Nature of Ideals and into the Methods Employed for Their Realization 1937
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan 1939
Gray Eminence: A Study in Religion and Politics 1941
The Art of Seeing 1942
Time Must Have a Stop 1944
The Perennial Philosophy 1946
Science, Liberty and Peace 1946
Ape and Essence 1948
The Gioconda Smile 1948
Themes and Variations 1950
The Devils of Loudun 1952
The Doors of Perception 1954
The Genius and the Goddess 1955
Heaven and Hell 1956
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow 1956
Brave New World Revisited 1958
Island 1962
Literature and Science 1963
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More by Aldous Huxley
THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION
AND HEAVEN AND HELL
Two classic complete books in which Huxley explores, as only he can, the mind’s remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness. These two books became essential for the counterculture during the 1960s and influenced a generation’s perception of life.
“A challenge is forcibly put, ideas are freshly and prodigally presented.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
THE GENIUS AND THE GODDESS
Talking with a friend on Christmas Eve while a small grandson sleeps upstairs, John Rivers is moved to set the record straight about his mentor—the legendary scientific genius in whose home, thirty years before, ecstasy and torment had laid hold of Rivers, shocking him out of “half-baked imbecility into something more nearly resembling the human form.” Fatefully, Rivers had an affair with the famous man’s young wife, bringing the couple to ruin. Now back in print, The Genius and the Goddess is Aldous Huxley’s lost novella of the conflict between reason and passion.
“A genius…. A writer who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine.”
—The New Yorker
EYELESS IN GAZA
First published in 1936, Eyeless in Gaza is Aldous Huxley’s loosely autobiographical novel of one man’s search for an alternative to the moral disillusionment of the modern world. Anthony Beavis, a cynical libertine Oxford graduate, comes of age in the vacuum left by World War I. His life, loves, and foreign adventures leave him unfulfilled, until a friend inspires Anthony to become a revolutionary in Mexico. Shattered by the experience, Anthony forges a radical new spiritual understanding. Eyeless in Gaza remains one of the finest modern novels, a testament to Huxley’s powers as an artist and thinker.
“An important book…. Without parallel in our contemporary literature.”
—New York Times Book Review
THE PERENNIAL PHILOSOPHY
An inspiring collection of writings drawn from the world’s great religions, edited and commented upon by Huxley with characteristic insight, wit, and passion.
“It is the masterpiece of all anthologies. As Mr. Huxley has proved before, he can find and frame rare beauty in literature, and here, long before Freud, writers are quoted who combine beauty with proud psychology.”
—New York Times
BRAVE NEW WORLD
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 genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently useful to the ruling class. This powerful work of speculative fiction sheds a blazing critical light on the present and is considered to be Aldous Huxley’s most enduring masterpiece.
“Mr. Huxley is eloquent in his declaration of an artist’s faith in man, and it is his eloquence, bitter in attack, noble in defense, that, when one has closed the book, one remembers.”
—Saturday Review of Literature
“Huxley never went out of style. Something about his work seem[s] to tug at our consciousness…. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle, and Huxley assists us in attaining this valuable glimpse of the obvious, precisely because it was a conclusion that was in many ways unwelcome to him.”
—Christopher