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Aldous Huxley

* July 26, 1894 in United Kingdom - † November 22, 1963 in United States
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La filosofia perenne és un assaig de l'escriptor anglès Aldous Huxley, elaborat el 1945. Tracta sobre el terme filosòfic homònim amb la intenció de recopilar totes aquelles obres que el defineixen i representen al llarg de la història i de la diversitat de cultures i tradicions.

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Ape and Essence is a novel by Aldous Huxley, published by Chatto & Windus in the UK and Harper & Brothers in the US. It is set in a dystopia, similar to that in Brave New World, Huxley's more famous work. It is largely a satire of the rise of large-scale warfare and warmongering in the 20th century, and …

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He left his luggage to be called for later, and pushed off on his bicycle. He always took his bicycle when he went into the country. It was part of the theory of exercise. One day one would get up at six o'clock and pedal away to Kenilworth, or Stratford-on-Avon—anywhere. And within a radius of twenty miles there were …

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Contrapunto es posiblemente la novela más ambiciosa y lograda de Huxley y la que dio mayor fama internacional, pues en ella da forma literaria al contrapunto musical, alternando acciones simultáneas que avanzan en paralelo y demostrando que eso es posible y funciona en una novela. Se convierte así en la historia …

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Un món feliç és una novel·la d'Aldous Huxley. Es tracta d'una distopia o utopia inversa per criticar el present. Transcorre a Londres el 2540 dC i anticipa el desenvolupament de la tecnologia reproductiva, la biotecnologia i l'ensenyament durant el son que junts provoquen un fort canvi social. Huxley respon a aquest …

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Un món feliç és una novel·la d'Aldous Huxley. Es tracta d'una distopia o utopia inversa per criticar el present. Transcorre a Londres el 2540 dC i anticipa el desenvolupament de la tecnologia reproductiva, la biotecnologia i l'ensenyament durant el son que junts provoquen un fort canvi social. Huxley respon a aquest …

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The final novel from Aldous Huxley, Island is a provocative counterpoint to his worldwide classic Brave New World, in which a flourishing, ideal society located on a remote Pacific island attracts the envy of the outside world.

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The Doors of Perception is a short book by Aldous Huxley, first published in 1954, detailing his experiences when taking mescaline. The book takes the form of Huxley's recollection of a mescaline trip that took place over the course of an afternoon, and takes its title from a phrase in William Blake's 1793 poem The …

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Un món feliç és una novel·la d'Aldous Huxley. Es tracta d'una distopia o utopia inversa per criticar el present. Transcorre a Londres el 2540 dC i anticipa el desenvolupament de la tecnologia reproductiva, la biotecnologia i l'ensenyament durant el son que junts provoquen un fort canvi social. Huxley respon a aquest …