Aldous Leonard Huxley

Originally published in 1932, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today than ever before. “One of the most prophetic dystopian works of the 20th century” —Wall Street Journal Cloning, feel-good drugs, antiaging programs, and total social control through...

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 ...

The critically acclaimed novelist and social critic Aldous Huxley describes his personal experimentation with the drug mescaline and explores the nature of visionary experience. The title of this classic comes from William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: “If the doors of perception...

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...

Audiolibro producido con música original y sonido 3D. El mismo está diseñado para ser escuchado con auriculares. Un mundo feliz es la novela más famosa...

A Natural Path to Better Vision 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. Documenting his own profound near-blindness and...

Audiolibro producido con sonido 3D. El mismo esta diseñado para ser escuchado con auriculares. Las puertas de la percepción es un ensayo escrito por...

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 centres on Anthony Beavis, a...

La crítica ha dicho... "Aldous Huxley fue un hombre extraordinariamente profético, no hay otro novelista en el siglo XX que haya escrito una guía más sagaz...

A Hollywood millionaire with a terror of death, whose personal physician happens to be working on a theory of longevity—these are the elements of Huxley's caustic and entertaining satire on man's desire to live indefinitely. "A highly sensational plot that will keep astonishing you to...

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

“Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody’s happy.” In music, counterpoint is the art of writing melodies that play in conjunction with one another, according to a strict set of rules, in order to emphasize the melody by contrast. In debate, point/counterpoint is a...

The renowned author of Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, made his literary debut with the 1921 classic Crome Yellow. 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...

Dieses Buch ist ein Resümee der weltpolitischen, sozialen und ökonomischen Entwicklungen seit dem Erscheinen der Schönen neuen Welt. Es betrachtet nicht nur die einzelnen Aspekte dieser Entwicklung, sondern vor allem die Konsequenzen, die hieraus entstanden sind ...

1984 by George Orwell and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley are two of the most famous and influential dystopian novels ever written....

Im Jahre 632 nach Ford ist die Welt ein perfekter Ort: Kriminalität und Armut gehören der Vergangenheit an. Babys werden in Flaschen gezüchtet und so...

This recording is from a speech in which Aldous Huxley discusses Brave New World and George Orwell's Animal Farm.

From one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, Aldous Huxley, comes his great novella, set in Rome, about a writer’s affair with a mysterious young fan—now back in print for the first time in the U.S. in more than seventy years and also featuring two other acclaimed short works...

Eine Welt ohne Gewalt? In ferner Zukunft ist die ideale Gesellschaft geformt: Künstlich reproduzierte, genmanipulierte Menschen sind mit Hilfe von Gehirnwäsche und Drogen glückliche Konsumenten. Nur der Alpha Bernard Marx scheint von einer unbestimmten Sehnsucht nach Freiheit getrieben zu...

Fagre nye verden handler om bagsiden af vore drømmes mål: romanen skildrer med bidende ironi fremskridtstankens endestation....