Aldous Huxley

Jo Stoyte is afraid of death. Written while he was living in California, this is Huxleyâ??s response to Hollywoodâ??s superficiality and obsession with youth, a powerful cautionary tale which employs all his customary wit and merciless insight.

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; about Maartens' beautiful wife, Katy, and about a love affair which shook Rivers to the core and caused him to question everything he once revered.

Sebastian Barnack, a handsome English schoolboy, is on bad terms with his socialist father who disapproves of his hedonistic lifestyle. His education there, thanks to the contradictory influences of his scurrilous Uncle Eustace and a saintly bookseller, is both sacred and profane.

There are three good friends: a devoted husband, a pathetically invalid wife, and a woman friend of the family. Gradually we learn that there is a terrifying truth beneath the appearance of their friendship. It has an ending you have never seen before, and it will give you the shock of your life.5 women, 5 men

WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY MARGARET ATWOOD AND DAVID BRADSHAWFar in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society.

This volume of criticism presents a variety of new essays on Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, a classic in the science fiction and dystopian genres. These essays delve into the cultural, historical, comparative and critical contexts for understanding Brave New World. For readers who are studying it for the first time, several essays survey the critical conversation regarding this work from all standard critical perspectives – social, gender, post-modern, psychological, and cultural as well as the more traditional historical and close readings. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is (along with Evgeny Zamyatin’s We and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four) one of the founding texts of the genre of dystopian fiction. Such narratives, involving the exploration of possible dark, oppressive futures, have become one of the most popular genres of contemporary popular culture. Those narratives have recently become extremely common, even in Young Adult fiction. However, the founding texts of the genre remain compelling and continue to set its terms. Of these founding texts, Brave New World is widely acknowledged to be the one whose dystopian future most closely matches the Western world as it has actually evolved since the initial publication of the text more than eighty years ago. The essays in this volume examine the ways in which Brave New World continues to serve as an effective satirical commentary on our own reality, as well as the ways it continues to provide models for the numerous dystopian fictions that are being produced today.

Crome Yellow is a novel written by Aldous Huxley and published in 1921. It is a satirical novel that explores the lives and experiences of a group of intellectuals and artists who gather at a country estate called Crome. The novel is set in the early 1920s and follows the protagonist, Denis Stone, a young poet who is struggling to find his place in the world. The novel is divided into three parts, each of which explores different themes and ideas. The first part introduces the characters and the setting, while the second part focuses on the relationships between the characters and their various conflicts. The third part brings the novel to a close, as the characters come to terms with their lives and their place in the world. Throughout the novel, Huxley explores themes such as the nature of art and creativity, the role of intellectuals in society, and the search for meaning and purpose in life. He also satirizes the social and cultural norms of the time, including the upper-class lifestyle and the emerging modernist movement. Overall, Crome Yellow is a thought-provoking and entertaining novel that offers a unique perspective on early 20th-century society and culture. It is a must-read for fans of Huxley's work, as well as anyone interested in literature, philosophy, and social commentary. This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition. This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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