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Brave New World Aldous Huxley - Large Print Edition

By: Aldous Huxley

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Brave New World Aldous Huxley - Large Print Edition

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When Brave New World was first published in 1932 it was regarded as another screwball Science Fiction novel. However, as time as gone on, more and more of the events predicted by this novel have become true and it is now required reading at major universities. In the Brave New World, the classes of people are divided into Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons. Each class is trained to believe that they are better off than either the people below them or above them. The people at the bottom of the scale are the laborers who do the actual work. To maintain this intelligence disparity, children of lower classes are made less smart through oxygen treatments and chemicals. Parenting and family is nonexistent and such concepts are considered archaic and disdained. All children are born as test tube babies. One fertilized egg will normally produce 96 identical twin children. However, experiments have been done in which as many as 16,000 identical children have been produced. Sex is no longer needed or wanted to produce children. As a result, a man can usually have sexual intercourse with any woman he wants. Just as almost everybody will shake your hand if you stick your hand out, in the Brave New World, almost every woman will have sexual intercourse with you if you ask her.

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4871871959

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9784871871952

Time Must Have a Stop

By: Aldous Huxley

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Time Must Have a Stop

By: Aldous Huxley

This is Mr. Huxley's best novel for a very long time . . . admirably constructed . . . bright and sun-pierced." New Statesman and Nation

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Dalkey Archive Press

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1564781801

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9781564781802

Island

By: Aldous Huxley

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Island

By: Aldous Huxley

While shipwrecked on the island of Pala, Will Farnaby, a disenchanted journalist, discovers a utopian society that has flourished for the past 120 years. Although he at first disregards the possibility of an ideal society, as Farnaby spends time with the people of Pala his ideas about humanity change. The final novel written by Aldous Huxley, Island was penned as a counterpart to his most famous work Brave New World, which depicted a dystopian society transformed by the momentum of technological and industrial development. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

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Harper Collins

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144343440X

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9781443434409

After Many a Summer Dies the Swan

A Novel

By: Aldous Huxley

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After Many a Summer Dies the Swan

A Novel

By: Aldous Huxley

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 Aldous Huxley's caustic and entertaining satire on man's desire to live indefinitely. With his customary wit and intellectual sophistication, Huxley pursues his characters in their quest for the eternal, finishing on a note of horror. "This is Mr. Huxley's Hollywood novel, and you might expect it to be fantastic, extravagant, crazy and preposterous. It is all that, and heaven and hell too....It is the kind of novel that he is particularly the master of, where the most extraordinary and fortuitous events are followed by contemplative little essays on the meaning of life....The story is outrageously good."—New York Times. "A highly sensational plot that will keep astonishing you to practically the final sentence."—The New Yorker. "Mr. Huxley's elegant mockery, his cruel aptness of phrase, the revelations and the ingenious surprises he springs on the reader are those of a master craftsman; Mr. Huxley is at the top of his form." —London Times Literary Supplement.

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Ivan R. Dee

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1461741351

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Eyeless In Gaza

By: Aldous Huxley

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Eyeless In Gaza

By: Aldous Huxley

From the salons of Oscar Wilde’s decadent London to the modern bohemian radicalism of Bloomsbury, Aldous Huxley’s Eyeless in Gaza offers us a portrait of early twentieth century England through the lens of Anthony Beavis, a rakish upper-class Englishman whose story loosely parallels that of the author’s own life. Written shortly after Brave New World, Huxley’s Eyeless in Gaza is both a novel of ideas and a fictionalized memoir offering a more intimate look into the forces that shaped Aldous Huxley as an author. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

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Harper Collins

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1443432385

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9781443432382

Brave New World: a Novel

And , Brave New World Revisited

By: Aldous Huxley

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Brave New World: a Novel

And , Brave New World Revisited

By: Aldous Huxley

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0900948434

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9780900948435

Time Must Have A Stop

By: Aldous Huxley

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Time Must Have A Stop

By: Aldous Huxley

Seventeen-year-old Sebastian Barnack is a poet and son to a widowed father who doesn’t approve of his lifestyle. In response, Sebastian turns to his hedonistic and rich uncle Eustace, travelling to Florence to join him on holiday, hoping for a taste of the decadent lifestyle he desires. What follows, however, is a spiritual journey of self-discovery that involves death, deceit, intrigue and loss. Published in 1944, Time Must Have a Stop explores Aldous Huxley’s philosophical ideas on mysticism and was described by the author as his most successful attempt at “fusing story with idea.” HarperPerennialClassics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

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Harper Collins

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1443428558

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9781443428552

Brave New World. Per Le Scuole Superiori

By: Aldous Huxley

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Brave New World. Per Le Scuole Superiori

By: Aldous Huxley

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.

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Longman Italia

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0582060168

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9780582060166

Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited

By: Aldous Huxley

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Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited

By: Aldous Huxley

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 Huxley's most enduring masterpiece. Following Brave New World is the nonfiction work Brave New World Revisited, first published in 1958. It is a fascinating work in which Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with the prophetic fantasy envisioned in Brave New World, including threats to humanity, such as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion.

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Harper Collins

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0060776099

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9780060776091

Those Barren Leaves

By: Aldous Huxley

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Those Barren Leaves

By: Aldous Huxley

A sharply witty novel about social ambitions and artistic pretensions by the author of Brave New World. The widowed Mrs. Aldwinkle will tell anyone who will listen of her love for art, and in a quest to surround herself with her intellectual equals, she invites an entourage to an Italian palace. One guest, who supports his poetry habit by editing a magazine for rabbit fanciers, will become the target of her amorous advances. Another guest will use the opportunity to embark on an affair in order to mine it for literary material, while yet another chases after a vulnerable heiress. A sparkling satire of the cultural elite, Those Barren Leaves is as entertaining and relevant today as when it was originally published. “Extremely clever, with the brilliance we have come to associate with this author.” —The New York Times

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Open Road Media

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1504066081

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Crome Yellow

By: Aldous Huxley

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Crome Yellow

By: Aldous Huxley

Crome Yellow Aldous Huxley - Crome Yellow is Aldous Huxley's first novel, satirizing the fads and fashions of the time. It is the story of a house party at Crome, a parody version of Garsington Manor, home of Lady Ottoline Morrell, a house where authors such as Huxley and T. S. Eliot used to gather and write. On vacation from school, Denis goes to stay at Crome, an English country house inhabited 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 Crome." 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, Crome Yellow 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

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Phoemixx Classics Ebooks

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3985517983

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9783985517985

The Doors of Perception

And Heaven and Hell

By: Aldous Huxley

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The Doors of Perception

And Heaven and Hell

By: Aldous Huxley

Two classic texts in one volume reveal Huxley's explorations into the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness.

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HarperCollins (UK)

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058604437X

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9780586044377

The Perennial Philosophy

An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West

By: Aldous Huxley

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The Perennial Philosophy

An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West

By: Aldous Huxley

An inspired gathering of religious writings that reveals the "divine reality" common to all faiths, collected by Aldous Huxley "The Perennial Philosophy," Aldous Huxley writes, "may be found among the traditional lore of peoples in every region of the world, and in its fully developed forms it has a place in every one of the higher religions." With great wit and stunning intellect—drawing on a diverse array of faiths, including Zen Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Christian mysticism, and Islam—Huxley examines the spiritual beliefs of various religious traditions and explains how they are united by a common human yearning to experience the divine. The Perennial Philosophy includes selections from Meister Eckhart, Rumi, and Lao Tzu, as well as the Bhagavad Gita, Tibetan Book of the Dead, Diamond Sutra, and Upanishads, among many others.

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Harper Collins

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0061893315

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9780061893315

Point Counter Point

By: Aldous Huxley

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Point Counter Point

By: Aldous Huxley

A satiric view of intellectual life in the '20s and is populated with characters based on such celebrities of the time as D.H. Lawrence, KatherineMansfield, Sir Oswald Mosley, Nancy Cunard, and John Middleton Murray, aswell as Huxley himself.

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Dalkey Archive Press

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1564781313

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9781564781314

After Many a Summer

By: Aldous Huxley

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After Many a Summer

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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 practically the final sentence. --The New Yorker

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0586044329

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The Perennial Philosophy

By: Aldous Huxley

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The Perennial Philosophy

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The Perennial Philosophy is defined by its author as "The metaphysic that recognizes a divine Reality substantial to the world of things and lives and minds." With great wit and stunning intellect, Aldous Huxley examines the spiritual beliefs of various religious traditions and explains them in terms that are personally meaningful.

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Borgo Press

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0809590018

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Book's by aldous. huxley

Brave New World Aldous Huxley - Large Print Edition

Brave New World Aldous Huxley - Large Print Edition

Time Must Have a Stop

Time Must Have a Stop

Island

Island

After Many a Summer Dies the Swan

After Many a Summer Dies the Swan

Eyeless In Gaza

Eyeless In Gaza

Brave New World: a Novel

Brave New World: a Novel

Time Must Have A Stop

Time Must Have A Stop

Brave New World. Per Le Scuole Superiori

Brave New World. Per Le Scuole Superiori

Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited

Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited

Those Barren Leaves

Those Barren Leaves

Crome Yellow

Crome Yellow

The Doors of Perception

The Doors of Perception

The Perennial Philosophy

The Perennial Philosophy

Point Counter Point

Point Counter Point

After Many a Summer

After Many a Summer

The Perennial Philosophy

The Perennial Philosophy

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