Bücher von Aldous Huxley

WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY MARGARET ATWOOD AND DAVID BRADSHAWFar in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society.Huxley's ingenious fantasy of the future sheds a blazing light on the present and is considered to be his most enduring masterpiece.

In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes everything, from the flowers in a vase to the creases in his trousers, was transformed.

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Touching on themes of control, humanity, technology, and influence, Aldous Huxley's enduring classic is a reflection and a warning of the age in which it was written, yet remains frighteningly relevant today. With its surreal imagery and otherworldly backdrop, Brave New World adapts beautifully to the graphic novel form.

In his 1932 classic dystopian novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley depicted a future society in thrall to science and regulated by sophisticated methods of social control.

In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes everything, from the flowers in a vase to the creases in his trousers, was transformed. In this book, he gives an account of his experience, and his vision for psychedelics.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID BRADSHAWThe dilettantes who frequent Lady Tantamount's society parties are determined to push forward the moral frontiers of the age. As they all engage in dazzling and witty conversation, the din of the age - its ideas and idiocies - grows deafening.

Immerse yourself in the turbulent world of ""The Sound and theFury,"" a masterpiece by Nobel laureate William Faulkner. Thisgroundbreaking novel, first published in 1929, offers a profoundexploration of the human condition through the tragic decline ofthe once-noble Compson family in the American South.Faulkner's innovative narrative technique, which includesastream-of-consciousness style, plunges readers into the complexinner lives of his characters, revealing their struggles, desires, andflaws with intimate detail.Set in Mississippi, the story unfolds through four distinctperspectives, each chapter offering a unique voice, from thesensitive and mentally challenged Benjy to the intense andintrospective Quentin, the pragmatic but cynical Jason, andfinally through the eyes of the family's black servant, Dilsey. Thisquartet of narratives weaves a rich tapestry of themes such astime, memory, and the unrelenting grip of the past.""The Sound and the Fury"" is not just a story; it's an experience, alinguistic journey that challenges and rewards its readers with itscomplexity and depth. Faulkner's skillful use of non-linearstorytelling and his profound insights into the human psychemake this novel a cornerstone of American literature. Step intothe world of the Compsons and experience a tale that resonateswith the timeless questions of identity, loss, and the inexorabledecay of time.

"Dive into the shadowy underworld of Dashiell Hammett's 'The Maltese Falcon', a masterpiece that redefined the detective genre. In the fog-laden streets of San Francisco, meet Sam Spade, a sharp-witted private detective with a knack for trouble. When the alluring Miss Wonderly walks into his office, Spade is plunged into a labyrinth of deception and greed. At the heart of this whirlwind is the elusive Maltese Falcon, a priceless artifac t steeped in mystery and coveted by a cast of cunning characters, each with their own dangerous agenda. As Spade navigates through lies and treachery, he must contend with murder, betrayal, and his own dubious morals. With twists at every turn, Hammett crafts a tale where trust is a luxury and the stakes are deadly. Will Spade unravel the mystery of the Maltese Falcon, or will he be outwitted in this deadly game of cat and mouse? 'The Maltese Falcon' is not just a story-it's a riveting journey into the heart of noir, where the line between right and wrong is as blurred as the foggy San Francisco skyline."

Those Barren Leaves is a satirical novel by Aldous Huxley, published in 1925. The title is derived from the poem "The Tables Turned" by William Wordsworth which ends with the words: Enough of Science and of Art;Close up those barren leaves;Come forth, and bring with you a heartThat watches and receives.Stripping the pretensions of those who claim a spot among the cultural elite, it is the story of Mrs. Aldwinkle and her entourage, who are gathered in an Italian palace to relive the glories of the Renaissance. For all their supposed sophistication, they are nothing but sad and superficial individuals in the final analysis. (wikipedia.org)

Antic Hay is a comic novel by Aldous Huxley, published in 1923. The story takes place in London, and depicts the aimless or self-absorbed cultural elite in the sad and turbulent times following the end of World War I.The book follows the lives of a diverse cast of characters in bohemian, artistic and intellectual circles. It clearly demonstrates Huxley's ability to dramatise intellectual debates in fiction and has been called a "novel of ideas" rather than people.It expresses a mood of mournful disenchantment and reinforced Huxley's reputation as an iconoclast. The book was condemned for its cynicism and for its immorality because of its open debate on sex. The novel was banned for a while in Australia and burned in Cairo.Superficially the story follows one Theodore Gumbril in his invention of Gumbril's Patent Small-Clothes, trousers which contain a pneumatic cushion in the seat.Gumbril's quest for love occasionally makes him resort to utilizing "The Complete Man" which is a disguise he concocts around a false full beard. With it he is able to overcome his shyness and approach women in public places with a bold directness. However he is then left with the problem of how he reveals his real self to the women he befriends.It was written just after Huxley and his wife moved to Italy, where they lived from 1923 to 1927.The title is from the play Edward II by Christopher Marlowe, c1593, Act One, Scene One, lines 59-60: "My men, like satyrs grazing on the lawns, shall with their goat feet dance the antic hay", which is quoted on the frontispiece. "Antic hay", here, refers to a playful dance.The manuscripts for the novel are part of the collection of the University of Houston Library.The novel was mentioned briefly in Evelyn Waugh's classic novel Brideshead Revisited (1945): 'Picture me, my dear, alone and studious. I had just bought a rather forbidding book called Antic Hay, which I knew I must read before going to Garsington on Sunday, because everyone was bound to talk about it, and it's so banal saying you have not read the book of the moment, if you haven't.'(wikipedia.org)

Point Counter Point is a novel by Aldous Huxley, first published in 1928. It is Huxley's longest novel and was notably more complex and serious than his earlier fiction.Born into the prominent Huxley family, he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with an undergraduate degree in English literature. He began his career publishing poetry and short stories, and he edited the literary magazine Oxford Poetry. Later, he published screenplays, travelogues, and satire. He spent most of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death. By the end of his life, Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time. He received nine nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature and was named a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 1962.Huxley was a pacifist. He grew interested in philosophical mysticism as well as universalism, addressing these subjects in his works such as The Perennial Philosophy (1945), which illustrates commonalities between Western and Eastern mysticism, and The Doors of Perception (1954), which interprets his own psychedelic experience with mescaline. In his most famous novels, Brave New World (1932) and Island (1962), he presented his visions of dystopia and utopia.

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Denis, a young writer and poet, travels to an English countryside manor to spend the summer alongside a cast of outlandish leisure class intellectuals. The younger guests of the manor grapple with navigating love and sex within a post-Victorian society. Older guests and inhabitants obsess over trivialities from their vast libraries, eager to give a show of their knowledge to each other. The novel uses these interactions to paint a scathing representation of their insecurities and world views.Crome Yellow is Aldous Huxley¿s first published novel. His inspiration for many of the characters came from his time spent at Garsington Manor, a haven for many writers and poets of the time.

We rely on your support to help us keep producing beautiful, free, and unrestricted editions of literature for the digital age.Will you support our efforts with a donation?Mrs. Aldwinkle, an English aristocrat of a certain age, has purchased a mansion in the Italian countryside. She wishes to bring a salon of intellectual luminaries into her orbit, and to that end she invites a strange cast of characters to spend time with her in her palazzo: Irene, her young niece; Ms. Thriplow, a governess-turned-novelist; Mr. Calamy, a handsome young man of great privilege and even greater ennui; Mr. Cardan, a worldly gentleman whose main talent seems to be the enjoyment of life; Hovenden, a young motorcar-obsessed lord with a speech impediment; and Mr. Falx, a socialist leader. To this unlikely cast is soon added Mr. Chelifer, an author with an especially florid, overwrought style that is wasted on his day job as editor of The Rabbit Fancier¿s Gazette, and the Elvers, a scheming brother who is the guardian of his mentally-challenged sister.As this unlikely group mingles, they discuss a great many grand topics: love, art, language, life, culture. Yet very early on the reader comes to realize that behind the pompousness of their elaborate discussions lies nothing but vacuity¿these characters are a satire of the self-important intellectuals of Huxley¿s era.His skewering of their intellectual barrenness continues as the group moves on to a trip around the surrounding country, in a satire of the Grand Tour tradition. The party brings their English snobbery out in full force as they traipse around Rome, sure of nothing else except in their belief that Italy is culturally superior simply because it¿s Italy.As the vacation winds down, we¿re left with a biting lampoon of the elites who suppose themselves to be at the height of art and culture¿the kinds of personalities that arise in every generation, sure of their own greatness but unable to actually contribute anything to the world of art and culture that they feel is so important.

Limbo (1920) is a collection of short fiction by English author Aldous Huxley. Mostly satirical, Huxley's novella, play, and four short stories show a promising writer at the very beginning of his career. In the novella "The Farcical History of Richard Greenow," Huxley satirizes the lives of his friends and acquaintances at Eton and Oxford. Richard Greenow, a young writer, spends his days as a politically engaged academic. At night, however, he writes fiction for women, crafting stories and serialized novels he sells to a prominent women's magazine. Finding success, he realizes there is a woman inside him, a writer named Pearl Bellairs who is as much a part of his identity as Richard Greenow is. When war breaks out, however, he must choose between his principled pacifism and his fear of prison, a decision that pits his two unique identities against one another. "Happily Ever After," a story set during the First World War, follows Peter Jacobsen, " a man with no nationality and no prejudices," as he travels across the Atlantic to visit Pemberton, his old friend from Oxford and a renowned scholar of philosophy. As friends and family converge on the stately Petherton home, a classic comedy of manners ensues. Limbo is an early collection of fiction from Aldous Huxley, presaging his satirical and dystopian novels with their abundant wit and unsparing, unmatched ire. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Aldous Huxley's Limbo is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers.

A man balances the care of his terminally ill wife with a secret mistress and a budding relationship with a younger woman. A young girl on holiday dreams of another prolonged escape from the world. Upon the rediscovery of an artist thought dead, an event is hastily prepared in his honor. Mortal Coils is a collection of short fiction by Aldous Huxley.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a dystopian novel that delves into the consequences of genetic engineering, conditioning, and the use of a drug called Soma. The story follows Bernard Marx, an Alpha Plus who feels out of place in his regimented world, and John, a Savage who struggles to adapt to the new world he encounters. Huxley explores themes of individuality, freedom, and the impact of technology on human relationships as he weaves a cautionary tale about sacrificing personal liberties for societal stability and technological advancement.

Der vierte Roman Aldous Huxleys, 1928 erschienen, ist ein Schlüsselroman seiner Epoche In Huxleys satirischen Gesellschaftsbild der Zwanzigerjahre werden nicht nur die brillanten und frivolen Intellektuellen porträtiert, sondern auch der Frage nachgegangen, wie ein glückliches, gesundes Leben aussehen kann. Bei den Partys von Lady Tantamount feiern die schillerndsten Persönlichkeiten, an denen die moralischen Dilemmas ihrer Zeit offensichtlich werden. Marjorie hat ihre Familie verlassen, um mit Walter zu leben, Walter hingegen ist verliebt in die kaltherzige, verführerische Lucy. In »Kontrapunkt des Lebens« werden D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield und Huxley selbst auf höchst vergnügliche Weise dargestellt.

Eine brillant erzählte Sittengeschichte des 17. Jahrhunderts von Aldous Huxley, dem Autor von »Schöne neue Welt«.1634 wurde der gutaussehende und zügellose Priester Urbain Grandier verhört, gefoltert und auf dem Scheiterhaufen verbrannt. Er wurde für schuldig befunden, mit dem Teufel im Bunde zu stehen, sowie ein ganzes Frauenkloster verführt und ins Unglück gestürzt zu haben. Huxley erzählt hier vom sensationellsten Fall von Massenbesessenheit und sexueller Hysteria im Mittelalter. Grandier selbst beteuerte stets seine Unschuld, aber noch vier Jahre nach seinem Tod wurden die Nonnen exorziert, um sie von ihren Dämonen zu befreien.»Die Phänomene von Loudun sowohl im Hinblick auf die Haßorgien und Schauprozesse unseres Jahrhunderts wie unter den Aspekten der tiefenpsychologischen Erkenntnis in ein theologisch wie philosophisch sine ira et studio entworfenes Bild der menschlichen Möglichkeiten einzuordnen, ist der im höchsten Grade produktive Sinn von Aldous Huxleys Studie.« (Christian E. Lewalter, DIE ZEIT)

Seine Analysen basieren auf einem bemerkenswerten, fast übernatürlichen Verständnis der menschlichen Natur und sind auch heute erschreckend aktuell. Aldous Huxley ist zu Recht ein prophetisches Genie und eine der wichtigsten literarischen und philosophischen Stimmen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Die Themen, die in der »Schönen neuen Welt« anklingen, wie Überbevölkerung, Propaganda, Drogen und Gehirnwäsche werden in 12 Essays vertieft und finden schließlich einen Ausblick, was nötig ist, um eine freie Gesellschaft zu errichten. In »Wiedersehen mit der schönen neuen Welt« stellt er seine Thesen auf den Prüfstand.

Bringing The Best Of ""Aldous Huxley"" Together.This edition includes, ""Crome Yellow"", ""Mortal Coils"", ""Antic Hay"" & ""Brave New World"".

The Burning Wheel (1916) is a collection of poems by English author Aldous Huxley. Published when the poet was only twenty-two, The Burning Wheel captures the mind of an artist at its earliest fertile stage, enthralled with a world either blooming with change or wilting with all-out war. Although Huxley is known foremost as a novelist, his poetry exhibits a mastery of language and an uncommon sense of the music inherent to words.¿The Burning Wheel¿ opens the collection with a kaleidoscopic vision of life and creation, illuminating the poet¿s debt to the French Symbolists. ¿Weary of its own turning,¿ the burning wheel slows for a moment¿s rest. This wheel, both machine and pure, wild flame, is the poet compelled to create, the mind that ¿[w]akes from the sleep of its quiet brightness / And burns with a darkening passion and pain.¿ In ¿Quotidian Vision,¿ Huxley returns to earth to remark: ¿There is a sadness in the street / And sullenly the folk I meet / Droop their heads as they walk along.¿ In these simple, rhyming couplets, the poet channels the verse and vision of William Blake to see, despite the ¿mist of cold and muffling grey,¿ a ¿dead world move for him once more / With beauty for its living core.¿ The Burning Wheel is a compelling collection from an artist whose poetry is no less remarkable for having gone mostly unnoticed.With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Aldous Huxley¿s The Burning Wheel is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers.

The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems (1918) is a collection of poems by English author Aldous Huxley. Although Huxley is known foremost as a novelist, his poetry exhibits a mastery of language and an uncommon sense of the music inherent to words. The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems is his third poetry collection."The Defeat of Youth" is a moving sonnet sequence on the passage of innocence to experience, on familiar transformation of love into lust. Capturing the experience of youthful attraction, Huxley imagines the moment in which the beloved "leans, and there is laughter in the face / She turns toward him; and it seems a door / Suddenly opened on some desolate place / With a burst of light and music." As the young man awakens to the life of another, his vision turns tragically pure, molding an image of "immanence divine," a face "in a flash of laughter" and a "young body with an inward flame." As the poem unfolds, however, he feels only shame to have touched "things deadly to be desired." Throughout this collection, Huxley explores the poet's tendency to sing and to praise the world's fleeting beauty while "[o]ther young men have been battling with the days / And others have been kissing the beautiful women." The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems is the work of a poet uncertain of his visionary gift, doubtful of his art's worth or purpose, yet sure of the power of language.With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Aldous Huxley's The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers.