It is Christmas Eve, and John Rivers is thinking about the past; about his sheltered upbringing; about an extraordinary time spent as a lab assistant to the great physicist Henry Maartens;...
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID BRADSHAWAnthony Beavis is a man inclined to recoil from life. Realising that his determined detachment from the world has been motivated not by intellectual...
A dystopian classicIn February 2108, the New Zealand Rediscovery Expedition reaches California at last. The expedition expects to find physical destruction but they are quite unprepared...
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WITH A FORWARD BY J. G. BALLARD In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When...
Among the most profound and influential explorations of mind-expanding psychadelic drugs ever written, here are two complete classic books—The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell—in...
A gripping biography by the author of Brave New WorldThe life of Father Joseph, Cardinal Richelieu's aide, was a shocking paradox. After spending his days directing operations on the...
The dilettantes who frequent Lady Tantamount's society parties are determined to push forward the moral frontiers of the age. Marjorie has left her family to live with Walter;...
The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems...
Jo Stoyte is afraid of death. Written while he was living in California, this is Huxley's response to Hollywood's superficiality and obsession with youth, a powerful cautionary tale...
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID BRADSHAW For over a hundred years the Pacific island of Pala has been the scene of a unique experiment in civilisation. Its inhabitants live in a society...
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MALCOLM BRADBURYDenis Stone, a naive young poet, is invited to stay at Crome, a country house renowned for its gatherings of 'bright young things'...
These essays are a testimony to the polymathic reach of Aldous Huxley's intellect, as well as to the relish with which he entered into some of his more surprising enthusiasms...
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WITH A FOREWORD BY DAVID LODGEWhen inspiration leads Theodore Gumbril to design a type of pneumatic trouser cushion to ease the discomfort of sedentary life, he decides the time has...
Brave New WorldBinding: PaperbackDate Published: 2004Authors: Aldous HuxleyBrave new world is a novel with a science-fiction theme written by bestselling author, aldous huxley, and...
Brave New World: York Notes Advanced - for 2026, 2027 exams...
A beautiful hardback edition of Huxley's inconic dystopian classic, introduced by Yuval Noah Harari'A masterpiece of speculation... As vibrant, fresh, and somehow shocking...
Limba: engleză, Legare: Carte broșată, Număr pagini: 288, Editura: Vintage Publishing, Autor: Aldous Huxley, ISBN-13: 9781784870140, Data emiterii: 2014...
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