Aldous Huxley

Contemporary / British English Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is one of the great works of science fiction. It is the year After Ford 632 in the New World. People are born and live by scientific methods. There is worldwide happiness and order. Then John comes from the Savage Reservation to the New World and with him he brings ...

Widely regarded as one of the great classic examples of dystopian fiction (along with Orwell's 1984), Brave New World is a chilling tale of a world where humanity has given up love, art, freedom, and even choice, all in the name of stability and happiness. This stability is rocked when the long-lost son of one of their highest caste is found...

Island begins when an Englishman intentionally shipwrecks himself on the shores of the isolated Pala, determined to procure access to its oil supplies for his employer. He does not expect what he findsa small slice of paradise on earth.A counterpart to his dystopia, Brave New World, Island is Huxley's great work of Utopian fiction, depicting a...

Two of the most famous pieces of non-fiction by Aldous Huxley (best known for Brave New World), The Doors of Perception details his experiences on the mind-altering drug mescaline, while Heaven and Hell details the relationships between mysticism, art, and sense perception that these experiences helped Huxley to explore and develop.He analogizes...

Niepublikowana dotąd w Polsce niezwykła książka Aldousa Huxleya wzbudziła swego czasu ogromne zainteresowanie krytyki i czytelników. Na jej motywach Ken Russell wyreżyserował głośne Diabły, Krzysztof Penderecki zaś skomponował operę do dziś święcącą tryumfy. Huxley przedstawia historię katolickiego księdza Urbaina Grandiera, który w 1634 roku...