Aldous Huxley

La vie du Pere Joseph (1577-1638), surnomme par ses detracteurs l'eminence grise du cardinal de Richelieu dont il etait ministre, est un saisissant paradoxe. Le jour, ce chef de redoutables services speciaux dirige les operations sur le champ de bataille. Son exercice impitoyable du pouvoir reussit a prolonger les horreurs de la guerre de Trente Ans. La nuit, ce fondateur d'un ordre de religieuses contemplatives prie ou compose des poemes. Pourquoi Aldous Huxley, le romancier de Contrepoint et du Meilleur des Mondes, s'est-il fait le biographe de ce prodigieux meconnu, melange de Talleyrand et de saint Jean de la Croix ? Parce que, dit-il, la creation d'un tel homme depasserait le genie de n'importe quel artiste litteraire. Certainement aussi parce que le Pere Joseph, politicien mystique, s'est vu, le jour comme la nuit, en batisseur d'un monde meilleur...

The graphic novel adaptation of the classic dystopian masterpiece. From Fred Fordham, graphic novelist behind the sensational TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD graphic novel. Originally published in 1932, Brave New World is one of the most revered and profound works of twentieth century literature. Touching on themes of control, humanity, technology, and influence, Aldous Huxley's enduring classic is a reflection and a warning of the age in which it was written, yet remains frighteningly relevant today. With its surreal imagery and otherworldly backdrop, Brave New World adapts beautifully to the graphic novel form. Fred Fordham's singular artistic flair and attention to detail and color captures this thought-provoking novel as never before, and introduces it to a new generation, and countless modern readers, in a fresh and compelling way.

A sumptuous gift edition to mark the 90th anniversary of first publication. With an Introduction by Yuval Noah Harari.'A masterpiece of speculation... As vibrant, fresh, and somehow shocking as it was when I first read it' Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's TaleWelcome to New London. Everybody is happy here. Our perfect society achieved peace and stability through the prohibition of monogamy, privacy, money, family and history itself. Now everyone belongs. You can be happy too. All you need to do is take your Soma pills. Discover the brave new world of Aldous Huxley's classic novel, written in 1932, which prophesied a society which expects maximum pleasure and accepts complete surveillance - no matter what the cost.'A grave warning... Provoking, stimulating, shocking and dazzling' Observer**One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**

Antic Hay takes place in London, and depicts the aimless or self-absorbed cultural elite in the sad and turbulent times following the end of World War I. The story follows one Theodore Gumbril in his invention of Gumbril's Patent Small-Clothes, trousers which contain a pneumatic cushion in the seat. Gumbril's quest for love occasionally makes him resort to utilizing ""The Complete Man"" which is a disguise he concocts around a false full beard. He relates to a diverse cast of characters in bohemian, artistic and intellectual circles. Everybody is lost but at the same time looking for happiness while everything is going out of control in a ridiculous and comic way.

Le respect de la verite presente un declin associe de pres a la regression en charite. Il n'est point de periode de l'histoire du monde ou le mensonge organise ait ete pratique d'une facon aussi ehontee, ou, grace a la technologie moderne, aussi efficacement et sur une aussi vaste echelle, que par les dictateurs politiques et economiques du siecle present. La majeure partie de ce mensonge organise prend la forme de propagande, inculquant la haine et la vanite, et preparant l'esprit des hommes a la guerre. Le but principal des menteurs est la suppression des sentiments et de la conduite charitables dans le domaine de la politique internationale. ...] Tel est le monde dans lequel nous nous trouvons, - monde qui, juge d'apres le seul critere acceptable du progres, est manifestement en regression. L'avance technologique est rapide. Mais sans progres en charite, l'avance technologique est inutile. Elle est meme pire qu'inutile. Le progres technologique nous a simplement fourni des moyens plus efficaces pour reculer. Comment cette regression en charite que nous vivons actuellement, et dont chacun de nous est responsable dans une certaine mesure, peut-elle etre enrayee et inversee ? Comment la societe existante peut-elle se transformer en la societe ideale decrite par les prophetes ? Comment l'homme sensuel moyen et l'exceptionnel (et plus dangereux) homme ambitieux peuvent-ils se transformer en ces etres sans attache, qui seuls sont capables de creer une societe sensiblement meilleure que la leur ? Ce sont la les questions auxquelles j'essaierai de repondre dans le present volume.

Welcome to New London. Everybody is happy here. Our perfect society achieves peace and stability by dispensing with monogamy, privacy, money, family and history itself. Now everyone belongs. You can be happy too. All you need to do is take your Soma pills. This is the brave new world of Aldous Huxley's deeply sinister and prophetic novel, a society based on maximum pleasure and complete surveillance - no matter the cost. 'A masterpiece of speculation... As vibrant, fresh, and somehow shocking as it was when I first read it' Margaret Atwood 'If you have time for just one book, this would be my top choice' Yuval Noah Harari INTRODUCED BY MARGARET ATWOOD AND DAVID BRADSHAW

Issledovanie zhizni nezaurjadnogo i zagadochnogo cheloveka, blagodarja kotoromu (ili po vine kotorogo) vo vse evropejskie jazyki voshlo vyrazhenie "seryj kardinal". On ostalsja v istorii pod imenem ottsa Zhozefa - pomoschnika i tajnogo sovetnika, neizmenno stojaschego za spinoj kardinala Rishele, - i sygral kljuchevuju rol v evropejskoj politike perioda Tridtsatiletnej vojny. Odni schitali ego svjatym, drugie - chudovischem. Sleduja zhestochajshim pravilam monasheskogo blagochestija i nikogda nichego ne zhelaja dlja sebja lichno, on tem ne menee s legkostju shel na predatelstva i prestuplenija, esli delo kasalos gosudarstvennykh interesov. Kem zhe on byl, etot prestupnik-pravednik, tverdo uverennyj, chto ispolnjaet Vysshuju volju?..

Limbo (1920) is a collection of short fiction by English author Aldous Huxley. Mostly satirical, Huxley’s novella, play, and four short stories show a promising writer at the very beginning of his career. In the novella “The Farcical History of Richard Greenow,” Huxley satirizes the lives of his friends and acquaintances at Eton and Oxford. Richard Greenow, a young writer, spends his days as a politically engaged academic. At night, however, he writes fiction for women, crafting stories and serialized novels he sells to a prominent women’s magazine. Finding success, he realizes there is a woman inside him, a writer named Pearl Bellairs who is as much a part of his identity as Richard Greenow is. When war breaks out, however, he must choose between his principled pacifism and his fear of prison, a decision that pits his two unique identities against one another. “Happily Ever After,” a story set during the First World War, follows Peter Jacobsen, “ a man with no nationality and no prejudices,” as he travels across the Atlantic to visit Pemberton, his old friend from Oxford and a renowned scholar of philosophy. As friends and family converge on the stately Petherton home, a classic comedy of manners ensues. Limbo is an early collection of fiction from Aldous Huxley, presaging his satirical and dystopian novels with their abundant wit and unsparing, unmatched ire. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Aldous Huxley’s Limbo is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers.

Mortal Coils (1921) is a collection of short fiction by English author Aldous Huxley. Focused on themes of love, taboo, disillusionment, and the writing process, these four stories and one play illuminate the young writer’s abundant wit and critical vision of life in twentieth century England. In “The Gioconda Smile,” a wealthy aristocrat named Henry Hutton invites the young Miss Janet Spence to dinner with him and his invalid wife Doris. After eating a dish against her doctor’s orders, Doris falls ill and is escorted to her room by her husband, after which Miss Spence goes home for the night. Taking the opportunity to see his mistress, Hutton leaves his wife alone, unwittingly, but perhaps unsurprisingly, welcoming disaster into his routinely dishonorable life. “The Tillotson Banquet” involves the unexpected rediscovery of a renowned artist who seemed to have disappeared without a trace in 1860 after painting his masterpiece at the age of twenty-six. Tasked with arranging an illustrious banquet for the man, Spode, the young man who at long last found Tillotson, scrambles to appease Lord Badgery, his illustrious benefactor. Mortal Coils compiles five short works of fiction by Aldous Huxley, a master-satirist and immensely gifted visionary whose work continues to astonish, humor, and terrify readers and critics alike. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Aldous Huxley’s Mortal Coils is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers.

Crome Yellow (1921) is a novel by English author Aldous Huxley. Inspired by his stay at Garsington Manor with members of the Bloomsbury Group, Crome Yellow, Huxley’s debut novel, satirizes the society of England’s intellectual and political elite. In addition to its autobiographical content, the novel investigates such themes as spirituality, the nature and composition of art, and the fear of a dystopian future. Invited to spend part of the summer at Crome, a country estate owned by Priscilla and Henry Wimbush, Denis Stone arrives by train carrying a draft of his first novel, which he intends to complete during his stay. There, he is introduced as a poet, and quickly falls in love with the young Anne Wimbush, herself enthralled with the painter Gombauld. Faced with disillusionment and disappointment, Stone struggles to write while being subjected to pseudointellectual conversations, lengthy public readings, and devastating characterizations by the guests and hosts of Crome. Memorable characters include Mary Bracegirdle, an adventurous and amorous flapper; Mr. Barbecue-Smith, a hack writer; and Mr. Scogan, a doomsayer with an elaborate dystopian vision. Crome Yellow, a biting work of satire, has earned comparisons to The Great Gatsby continues to be recognized as an important early work from one of England’s most visionary writers. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Aldous Huxley’s Crome Yellow is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers.

The book, The Defeat of Youth and Other Peoms, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.

प्रिसिला ने कहा, "आह, यह एक सुंदर किताब है, एक सुंदर किताब है", क्योंकि उसने अपने अंगूठे के नीचे से पन्नों को एक-एक करके वापस उड़ने दिया। "और यहाँ लोटस पूल के बारे में बताया गया है। वह आत्मा की तुलना लोटस पूल से करता है, आप जानते हैं। " उसने फिर से किताब उठाई और पढ़ी। "मेरे मित्र ने अपने बगीचे में एक लोटस पूल रखा है। यह जंगली गुलाब और ईग्लेंटाइन से सजी एक छोटी सी दाल में निहित है, जिसके बीच कोकिला गर्मियों के सभी लंबे समय तक अपने उजाड़ वंश को आगे बढ़ाती है। पूल के भीतर लोटस फूलते हैं, और हवा के पक्षी पीने के लिए आते हैं और अपने क्रिस्टल के पानी में स्नान करते हैं ... 'आह, और यह मुझे याद दिलाता है, "प्रिस्किला ने कहा, एक ताली के साथ किताब को बंद करना और अपने बड़े गहरा हँसते हुए बोलना - "यह मुझे उन चीजों की याद दिलाता है जो हमारे स्नान-पूल में चल रहे हैं क्योंकि आप यहां पिछले थे। हमने गाँव के लोगों को यहाँ आने और शाम को स्नान करने की छूट दी। आपको उन चीजों का कोई पता नहीं है

The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems (1918) is a collection of poems by English author Aldous Huxley. Although Huxley is known foremost as a novelist, his poetry exhibits a mastery of language and an uncommon sense of the music inherent to words. The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems is his third poetry collection. “The Defeat of Youth” is a moving sonnet sequence on the passage of innocence to experience, on familiar transformation of love into lust. Capturing the experience of youthful attraction, Huxley imagines the moment in which the beloved “leans, and there is laughter in the face / She turns toward him; and it seems a door / Suddenly opened on some desolate place / With a burst of light and music.” As the young man awakens to the life of another, his vision turns tragically pure, molding an image of “immanence divine,” a face “in a flash of laughter” and a “young body with an inward flame.” As the poem unfolds, however, he feels only shame to have touched “things deadly to be desired.” Throughout this collection, Huxley explores the poet’s tendency to sing and to praise the world’s fleeting beauty while “[o]ther young men have been battling with the days / And others have been kissing the beautiful women.” The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems is the work of a poet uncertain of his visionary gift, doubtful of his art’s worth or purpose, yet sure of the power of language. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Aldous Huxley’s The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers.

Mortal Coils (1921) is a collection of short fiction by English author Aldous Huxley. Focused on themes of love, taboo, disillusionment, and the writing process, these four stories and one play illuminate the young writer’s abundant wit and critical vision of life in twentieth century England. In “The Gioconda Smile,” a wealthy aristocrat named Henry Hutton invites the young Miss Janet Spence to dinner with him and his invalid wife Doris. After eating a dish against her doctor’s orders, Doris falls ill and is escorted to her room by her husband, after which Miss Spence goes home for the night. Taking the opportunity to see his mistress, Hutton leaves his wife alone, unwittingly, but perhaps unsurprisingly, welcoming disaster into his routinely dishonorable life. “The Tillotson Banquet” involves the unexpected rediscovery of a renowned artist who seemed to have disappeared without a trace in 1860 after painting his masterpiece at the age of twenty-six. Tasked with arranging an illustrious banquet for the man, Spode, the young man who at long last found Tillotson, scrambles to appease Lord Badgery, his illustrious benefactor. Mortal Coils compiles five short works of fiction by Aldous Huxley, a master-satirist and immensely gifted visionary whose work continues to astonish, humor, and terrify readers and critics alike. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Aldous Huxley’s Mortal Coils is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers.

Crome Yellow (1921) is a novel by English author Aldous Huxley. Inspired by his stay at Garsington Manor with members of the Bloomsbury Group, Crome Yellow, Huxley’s debut novel, satirizes the society of England’s intellectual and political elite. In addition to its autobiographical content, the novel investigates such themes as spirituality, the nature and composition of art, and the fear of a dystopian future. Invited to spend part of the summer at Crome, a country estate owned by Priscilla and Henry Wimbush, Denis Stone arrives by train carrying a draft of his first novel, which he intends to complete during his stay. There, he is introduced as a poet, and quickly falls in love with the young Anne Wimbush, herself enthralled with the painter Gombauld. Faced with disillusionment and disappointment, Stone struggles to write while being subjected to pseudointellectual conversations, lengthy public readings, and devastating characterizations by the guests and hosts of Crome. Memorable characters include Mary Bracegirdle, an adventurous and amorous flapper; Mr. Barbecue-Smith, a hack writer; and Mr. Scogan, a doomsayer with an elaborate dystopian vision. Crome Yellow, a biting work of satire, has earned comparisons to The Great Gatsby continues to be recognized as an important early work from one of England’s most visionary writers. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Aldous Huxley’s Crome Yellow is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers.