Aldous Huxley

Blind i Gaza är en roman från 1936 av Aldous Huxley. Titeln kommer från en strof i John Miltons Samson Agonistes. Kapitlen i boken är inte ordnade kronologiskt. Sybille Bedford, som skrev en biografi över honom, menar att romanfiguren Mary Amberley delvis var inspirerad av hennes mor, som var morfinmissbrukare, och …

London life just after World War I, devoid of values and moving headlong into chaos at breakneck speed - Aldous Huxley's Antic Hay, like Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, portrays a world of lost souls madly pursuing both pleasure and meaning. Fake artists, third-rate poets, pompous critics, pseudo-scientists, con-men, …

The Genius and the Goddess is a novel by Aldous Huxley. It was published by Chatto & Windus in the UK and by Harper & Row in the US. It is the fictional account of John Rivers, a student physicist in the 1920s who was hired out of college as a laboratory assistant to Henry Maartens.

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 heart That watches and receives. Stripping …

Heaven and Hell is a philosophical essay by Aldous Huxley published in 1956. Huxley derived the title from William Blake's book The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. The essay discusses the relationship between bright, colorful objects, geometric designs, psychoactives, art, and profound experience. Heaven and Hell …

The Collected Short Stories of Aldous Huxley consists of twenty stories compiled from five of Huxley's earlier collections and one from his novel Crome Yellow. Limbo: "Happily Ever After" "Eupompus Gave Splendour to Art by Numbers" "Cynthia" "The Bookshop" "The Death of Lully" Crome Yellow: "Sir Hercules" Mortal …