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After Many A Summer Dies The Swan by HUXLEY ALDOUS
Category: Fiction
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 h ...Show more
After Many a Summer by Aldous Huxley
Category: Classic
Jo Stoyle is afraid of death. But Stoyle is also a millionaire, and so he pours his riches into scientific research, desperate to find the secret of immortality. This ruthless quest will enmesh everyone around him in a web of greed, seduction, murder and debasement. Written while he was living in Califo ...Show more
After the Fireworks - Three Novellas by Aldous Huxley; Gary Giddins
Category: Fiction
"After the Fireworks is a major work and a turning point for Huxley, leading directly to Brave New World." --Gary Giddins A striking collection of three lost classic pieces of short fiction by Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, now available as a Harper Perennial Olive Edition. In the title novel ...Show more
Aldous Huxley by Huxley, Aldous
Category: Audio Books
This new CD from British Library Publishing contains recordings from the BBC archives spanning nearly thirty years. On it, the author discusses many diverse topics, including the causes of war and the effects of drug-taking on the writing process, and talks about his novels "Brave New World" and "Island ...Show more
Antic Hay by Aldous Huxley
Category: Classic | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
WITH A FOREWORD BY DAVID LODGE When inspiration leads Theodore Gumbril to design a type of pneumatic trouser to ease the discomfort of sedentary life, he decides the time has come to give up teaching and seek his fortune in the metropolis. He soon finds himself caught up in the hedonistic world of his f ...Show more
Ape and Essence by Aldous Huxley
Category: Classic
When Aldous Huxley's Brave New World first appeared in 1932, it presented in terms of purest fantasy a society bent on self-destruction. Few of its outraged critics anticipated the onset of another world war with its Holocaust and atomic ruin. In 1948, seeing that the probable shape of his anti-utopia h ...Show more
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
A towering classic of dystopian satire, BRAVE NEW WORLD""is a brilliant and terrifying vision of a soulless society--and of one man who discovers the human costs of mindless conformity. Hundreds of years in the future, the World Controllers have created an ideal civilization. Its members, shaped by gene ...Show more
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Category: Fiction
Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone in feeling discontent. Harbouring an unnatural desire for solitude, and a perverse ...Show more
Brave New World by Aldous. Huxley
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
Brave New World is a dystopian novel that participates in a tradition of speculative fiction called soft or social science fiction. Typically set far in the future, science fiction draws on current science and technology, but goes further than what is actually possible. Works of science fiction also oft ...Show more