Huxley, Aldous 1894-1963

Brave new world by Aldous Huxley ( Book )
955 editions published between 1932 and 2010 in 32 languages and held by 6,663 libraries worldwide
Six hundred years into the future, humans are bred by cloning, and "mother" and "father" are forbidden words. Originally published in 1932, Huxley's terrifying vision of a controlled and emotionless future "Utopian" society is truly startling in its prediction of modern scientific and cultural phenomena, including test-tube babies and rampant drug abuse.

Brave new world revisited by Aldous Huxley ( Book )
124 editions published between 1948 and 2006 in 17 languages and held by 3,559 libraries worldwide
The author examines the prophetic fantasy of his novel "Brave New World" and compares his predictions for the future with our actual world.

Point counter point by Aldous Huxley ( Book )
328 editions published between 1928 and 2007 in 22 languages and held by 3,489 libraries worldwide
Aldous Huxley's lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest expression both thematically and formally in his masterpiece Point Counter Point. By presenting a vision of life in which diverse aspects of experience are observed simultaneously, Huxley characterizes the symptoms of "the disease of modern man" in the manner of a composer - themes and characters are repeated, altered slightly, and played off one another in a tone that is at once critical and sympathetic. First published in 1928, Huxley's satiric view of intellectual life in the '20s is populated with characters based on such celebrities of the time as D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Sir Oswald Mosley, Nancy Cunard, and John Middleton Murray, as well as Huxley himself. A major work of the 20th century and a monument of literary modernism, this edition includes an introduction by acclaimed novelist Nicholas Mosley (author of Hopeful Monsters and the son of Sir Oswald Mosley). Along with Brave New World (written a few years later), Point Counter Point is Huxley's most concentrated attack on the scientific attitude and its effect on modern culture.

Crome yellow by Aldous Huxley ( Book )
247 editions published between 1921 and 2011 in 12 languages and held by 2,679 libraries worldwide
On vacation from school, Denis goes to stay at Crome, an English country house inhabitated by several of Huxley's most outlandish characters--from Mr. Barbecue-Smith, who writes 1,500 publishable words an hour by "getting in touch" with his "subconscious," to Henry Wimbush, who is obsessed with writing the definitive history of chrome. Denis's stay proves to be a disaster amid his weak attempts to attract the girl of his dreams and the ridicule he endures regarding his plan to write a novel about love and art. Lambasting the post-Victorian standards of morality, Chrome yello is a witty masterpiece that, in F. Scott Fitzgerald's words, "is too ironic to be called satire and too scornful to be called irony."

Island, a novel by Aldous Huxley ( Book )
144 editions published between 1962 and 2010 in 16 languages and held by 2,629 libraries worldwide
For 120 years, an ideal society has flourished on a Pacific island where drug use and open sex are encouraged, and children are not at the mercy of one set of parents. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala and events begin to move when an agent of the conspirators, a newspaperman named Faranby, is shipwrecked there. What Faranby doesn't expect is how his time with the people of Pala will revolutionize all his values and give him hope.

The perennial philosophy by Aldous Huxley ( Book )
118 editions published between 1937 and 2009 in 12 languages and held by 2,302 libraries worldwide
[This volume] is both an anthology and an interpretation of the supreme mystics, East and West.-Back cover.

Eyeless in Gaza by Aldous Huxley ( Book )
174 editions published between 1865 and 2009 in 18 languages and held by 2,197 libraries worldwide
The study of an intellectual youth who grows into manhood during a period of war and economic turmoil.

After many a summer dies the swan by Aldous Huxley ( Book )
175 editions published between 1939 and 1998 in 17 languages and held by 2,162 libraries worldwide
Multimillionaire is obsessed with the desire to live indefinitely.

Antic hay by Aldous Huxley ( Book )
179 editions published between 1923 and 2010 in 15 languages and held by 2,129 libraries worldwide
London life just after World War I, a world of lost souls madly pursuing both pleasure and meaning. Fake artists, third-rate poets, pompous critics, pseudo-scientists, con-men, bewildered romantics, cock-eyed futurists - all inhabit this world spinning out of control.

The devils of Loudun by Aldous Huxley ( Book )
112 editions published between 1952 and 2009 in 10 languages and held by 2,004 libraries worldwide
In this classic work, a remarkable true story of religious and sexual obsession is clarified and brought to vivid life.