London: Vintage, 2013.
Качество: изначально электронное
When Theodore Gumbril hits upon the notion of designing a type of pneumatic trouser (‘a comfort to all travellers, indispensable to first-nighters, the concert-goers’ friends’) to ease the discomfort of the sedentary life, he decides the time has come leave his position as a housemaster in a boys’ public school and seek...
Written in 1931 and published the following year, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is a dystopian - or anti-utopian - novel. In it, the author questions the values of 1931 London, using satire and irony to portray a futuristic world in which many of the contemporary trends in British and American society have been taken to extremes. Though he was already a best-selling author,...
Written in 1931 and published the following year, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is a dystopian - or anti-utopian - novel. In it, the author questions the values of 1931 London, using satire and irony to portray a futuristic world in which many of the contemporary trends in British and American society have been taken to extremes. Though he was already a best-selling author,...
A novel written in 1931 by Aldous Huxley and published in 1932. The Modern Library ranked Brave New World fifth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2003, Robert McCrum writing for The Observer listed Brave New World number 53 in "the top 100 greatest novels of all time", and the novel was listed at number 87 on the BBC's survey The Big Read.
Brave New World Revisited (Harper & Row, 1958), written by Huxley almost thirty years after Brave New World , was a non-fiction work in which Huxley considered whether the world had moved toward or away from his vision of the future from the 1930s. He believed when he wrote the original novel that it was a reasonable guess as to where the world might go in the future but in...
Delphi Classics, 2018. — 7041 p. — (Delphi Series Nine Book 13). English novelist and philosopher Aldous Huxley is famous today for his dystopian science fiction novel ‘Brave New World’, which went on to inspire countless other authors and forms of media. His works are notable for their wit and pessimistic satire, vividly expressing Huxley’s distrust of twentieth century trends...
Crome Yellow is the first novel by British author Aldous Huxley and published in 1921. In the book, Huxley satirises the fads and fashions of the time.
Crome Yellow is in the tradition of the English country house novel, as practiced most notably by Thomas Love Peacock, in which a diverse group of characters descend upon an estate to leech off the host. They spend most of...
An Enquiry into the Nature of Ideals and into the Methods employed. - London: Chatto & Windus, 1941 . Goals, roads and contemporary starting-point. The nature of explanation. Efficacy and limitations of large-scale social reform. The planned society. Nature of the modern state. Centralization and decentralization. Decentralization and self-government. War. Individual work for...
Harper Brothers. London, 1941. — 349 p.
In the long chain of crime and madness which binds the present world to the past one of the most important links was the Thirty Years`War in Germany 1618-1648. Many there were who worked to forge this link none more so than Richlieus collaborator Francois Leclerc du Tremblay known to religion as Father Joseph of Paris and to anecdotal...
London: Harper, 2013.
Качество: изначально электронное
In Island, Huxley portrays his ideal society which is free from weapons, oppression and fear and is replaced by holistic health care, a form of Buddism and a life enhancing drug (which Huxley's novel would be complete without it?). Huxley seems to be trying to convince people to get rid of their weapons and hatred and...
London: Triad Grafton Books, 1976 (1962). — 335 с.
In Island , Huxley portrays his ideal society which is free from weapons, oppression and fear and is replaced by holistic health care, a form of Buddism and a life enhancing drug (which Huxley's novel would be complete without it?). Huxley seems to be trying to convince people to get rid of their weapons and hatred and instead...
London: Triad Grafton Books, 1976 (1962). - 335 с. На английском языке. In Island, Huxley portrays his ideal society which is free from weapons, oppression and fear and is replaced by holistic health care, A form of Buddism and a life enhancing drug (which Huxley novel would be complete without it?). Huxley seems to be trying to convince people to get rid of their weapons and...
Point Counter Point is a novel by Aldous Huxley, first published in 1928. It is Huxley's longest novel, and was notably more complex and serious than his earlier fiction. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Point Counter Point 44th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. The novel's title is a reference to the musical technique of Counterpoint,...
London: Chatto & Windus, 1974. Medicine and Defective Vision. A Method of Visual Re-Education. Sensing + Selecting + Perceiving = Seeing. Variability of Bodily and mental Functioning. Causes of Visual Mal-Functioning: Disease and Emotional Disturbances. Relaxation. Blinking and Breathing. The Eye, Organ of Light. Central Fixation. Methods of Teaching the Eyes and Mind to Move....
Почти случайно Олдос Хаксли создал книгу, ставшую культовым текстом для тысяч радикальных интеллектуалов 60 х. «Двери восприятия» дали название знаменитой группе «The Doors». В числе последователей Хаксли — Уильям Берроуз, Кен Кизи, Том Вулф и Карлос Кастанеда. Всю свою жизнь автор самой знаменитой утопии XX века «О дивный новый мир» искал формулу всеобщего счастья....
Publisher: Chatto & Windus. 1946, pages: 358
Philosophia Perennis - the phrase was coined by Leibniz; but the thing - the metaphysic that recognizes a divine Reality substantial to the world of things and lives and minds; the psychology that finds in the soul something similar to, or even identical with, divine Reality; the ethic that places man's final end in the knowledge of...
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