"A challenge is forcibly put, ideas are freshly and prodigally presented."
--San Francisco Chronicle
THE GENIUS AND THE GODDESS
Talking with a friend on Christmas Eve while a small grandson sleeps upstairs, John Rivers is moved to set the record straight about his mentor--the legendary scientific genius in whose home, thirty years before, ecstasy and torment had laid hold of Rivers, shocking him out of "half-baked imbecility into something more nearly resembling the human form." Fatefully, Rivers had an affair with the famous man's young wife, bringing the couple to ruin. Now back in print, The Genius and the Goddess is Aldous Huxley's lost novella of the conflict between reason and passion.
"A genius.... A writer who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine."
--The New Yorker
EYELESS IN GAZA
First published in 1936, Eyeless in Gaza is Aldous Huxley's loosely autobiographical novel of one man's search for an alternative to the moral disillusionment of the modern world. Anthony Beavis, a cynical libertine Oxford graduate, comes of age in the vacuum left by World War I. His life, loves, and foreign adventures leave him unfulfilled, until a friend inspires Anthony to become a revolutionary in Mexico. Shattered by the experience, Anthony forges a radical new spiritual understanding. Eyeless in Gaza remains one of the finest modern novels, a testament to Huxley's powers as an artist and thinker.
"An important book.... Without parallel in our contemporary literature."
--New York Times Book Review
THE PERENNIAL PHILOSOPHY
An inspiring collection of writings drawn from the world's great religions, edited and commented upon by Huxley with characteristic insight, wit, and passion.
"It is the masterpiece of all anthologies. As Mr. Huxley has proved before, he can find and frame rare beauty in literature, and here, long before Freud, writers are quoted who combine beauty with proud psychology."
--New York Times
BRAVE NEW WORLD
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 Aldous Huxley's most enduring masterpiece.
"Mr. Huxley is eloquent in his declaration of an artist's faith in man, and it is his eloquence, bitter in attack, noble in defense, that, when one has closed the book, one remembers."
--Saturday Review of Literature
"Huxley never went out of style. Something about his work seem[s] to tug at our consciousness.... There is no escape from anxiety and struggle, and Huxley assists us in attaining this valuable glimpse of the obvious, precisely because it was a conclusion that was in many ways unwelcome to him."
--Christopher Hitchens
BRAVE NEW WORLD REVISITED
When the novel Brave New World first appeared in 1932, its shocking analysis of a scientific dictatorship seemed a projection into the remote future. Here, in one of the most important and fascinating books of his career, Aldous Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with his prophetic fantasy. He scrutinizes threats to humanity, such as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion, and explains why we have found it virtually impossible to avoid them. Brave New World Revisited is a trenchant plea that humankind should educate itself for freedom before it is too late.
"It is a frightening experience...to discover how much of his satirical prediction of a distant future became reality in so short a time."
--New York Times Book Review
THE DEVILS OF LOUDUN
First published in 1952, The Devils of Loudun is Aldous Huxley's thrilling account of one of history's most sensational cases of mass demonic possession. The year 1643: When an entire convent is apparently possessed by the devil, a charismatic priest is accused of being in league with Satan and seducing the nuns--both spiritually and sexually. After a celebrated trial, the priest, Urban Grandier, was burnt at the stake for witchcraft. Here is the gripping true history of Grandier and the nuns of Loudun, as told by one of the master storytellers of the twentieth century.
"Huxley's masterpiece and perhaps the most enjoyable book about spirituality ever written. In telling the grotesque, bawdy and true story of a seventeenth-century convent of cloistered French nuns who contrived to have a priest they never met burned alive as a warlock...Huxley painlessly conveys a wealth of information about mysticism and the unconscious."
--Washington Post Book World
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OTHER BOOKS BY ALDOUS HUXLEY
Novels The Genius and the Goddess Ape and Essence
Time Must Have a Stop After Many a Summer Dies the Swan Eyeless in Gaza
Point Counter Point Those Barren Leaves Antic Hay
Crome Yellow
Brave New World
Essays and Belles Lettres Brave New World Revisited Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow Heaven and Hell
The Doors of Perception The Devils of Loudun Themes and Variations Ends and Means
Texts and Pretexts The Olive Tree
Music at Night
Vulgarity in Literature Do What You Will Proper Studies
Jesting Pilate
Along the Road
On the Margin
Essays New and Old The Art of Seeing The Perennial Philosophy Science, Liberty and Peace Short Stories Collected Short Stories Brief Candles
Two or Three Graces Limbo
Little Mexican
Mortal Coils
Biography Grey Eminence
Poetry The Cicadas
Leda
Travel Beyond the Mexique Bay Drama Mortal Coils--A Play The World of Light The Discovery (Adapted from Francis Sheridan) Selected Works Rotunda
The World of Aldous Huxley
Credits
Cover design by Gregg Kulick
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