Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley (July 26, 1894 - November 22, 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. He was best known for his novels "Brave New World" and "The Doors of Perception." This recording is from a speech he gave, "What a Piece of Work Man Is." Earlier...

Aldous Huxley (July 26, 1894 - November 22, 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. He was best known for his novels "Brave New World" and "The Doors of Perception." This recording is from a speech he gave, "What a Piece of Work Man Is." Earlier...

"Brave New World," published in 1932, is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley. Set in a futuristic World State, the narrative centers around a society where people are engineered through artificial wombs and predetermined roles. The...

Brave New World is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published a year later. Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based...

Brave New World is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published a year later. Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based...

Though Aldous Huxley is best known for his later novels and essays, he started his writing career as a poet. The Burning Wheel is his first work, a collection of thirty poems that pay homage in style to poets who wrote in the Romantic or the French...

Contrapunto (Point Counter Point) es una novela del escritor inglés Aldous Huxley publicada en 1928 y considerada por la crítica y por el propio autor como la más característica, ambiciosa y lograda de las cinco publicadas hasta la irrupción de "Un...

Crome Yellow, first novel by Aldous Huxley, published in 1921. The book is a social satire of the British literati in the period following World War I. The book revolves around the hapless love affair of Denis Stone, a sensitive poet, and Anne...

Crome Yellow, published in 1921 was Aldous Huxley’s first novel. In it he satirizes the fads and fashions of the time. It is the witty story of a house party at ‘Crome’ where there is a gathering of bright young things. We hear some of the history of...

Fascinating and brilliant at many levels, Huxley's spoof of Lady Ottoline Morrell's famous bohemian gatherings is difficult to categorize. The ironic tone and caricaturish rendering of some characters makes it partly entertaining satire, but...

Though later known for his essays and novels, Aldous Huxley started his writing career as a poet. Published in 1918, The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems is his third compilation of poetry.The volume begins with "The Defeat of Youth", a sequence of...

La novela sorprendente mundo feliz, originalmente publicado en 1932, presenta la visión mítica de Aldous Huxley de un mundo del mañana completamente transformado. En oscuramente Huxley satírico aún escalofriantemente profética imaginación de un...

"Filosofía Perenne" es un libro del autor británico Aldous Huxley, publicado por primera vez en 1945. En esta obra, Huxley explora las principales ideas de las diferentes tradiciones espirituales del mundo, incluyendo la filosofía hindú, el taoísmo...

Though Aldous Huxley gained popularity from his novels and essays, he started his writing career as a poet. Jonah, his second compilation of poetry, is a collection of twelve poems (four of which are written in French). He published it, at the age of...

Las puertas de la percepción (título original en inglés The doors of perception) es un ensayo escrito por Aldous Huxley en 1954. En 1956 publicó como ensayo complementario Cielo e infierno, y en 1977 salió a la luz Moksha, un compendio de sus obras...

Audiolibro producido con sonido 3D. El mismo esta diseñado para ser escuchado con auriculares."Las puertas de la percepción" es un ensayo escrito por Aldous Huxley, publicado en 1954. En este trabajo, Huxley detalla sus experiencias al consumir la...

“Their Ethiop wives—sleek wineskins of black silk, Jellied and huge from drinking asses’ milk Through years of tropical idleness, to pray For offspring (whom he ever sent away With prayers unanswered, lest their ebon race Might breed and blacken the...

"Literatura y ciencia" es un ensayo escrito por Aldous Huxley, publicado originalmente en 1963. En esta obra, Huxley explora la relación entre la literatura y la ciencia, dos disciplinas que a menudo se consideran opuestas o incompatibles.Huxley...

Aldous Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly 50 books—both novels and nonfiction works—as well as wideranging essays, narratives, and poems.Born into the prominent Huxley family, he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with...

'NBC University Theater’ initially started in Chicago with a remit to bring adaptations of classic novels, usually Anglo-American, to a radio audience.Additionally, if listeners signed up they received college credit to a radio-assisted correspondence...

"Sobre la divinidad" es una novela escrita por Aldous Huxley y publicada en 1948. La obra sigue la historia de dos personajes principales, Jeremy Pordage y su esposa, ambos artistas que se dedican a la pintura y la escultura. La novela está ambientada...

"A genuine spiritual quest. . . . Extraordinary." — New York TimesAmong the most profound and influential explorations of mind-expanding psychedelic drugs ever written, a complete classic book—The Doors of Perception —in which Aldous Huxley, author of...

Aldous Huxley was a prominent English writer and intellectual who lived in the 20th century. He is best known for his dystopian novel, Brave New World, which is set in a futuristic society where individuals are conditioned from birth to be content...

Un mundo feliz es un clásico de la literatura del siglo XX, una sombría metáfora sobre el futuro. La novela describe un mundo en el que finalmente se han cumplido los peores vaticinios: triunfan los dioses del consumo y la comodidad, y el orbe se...