BOOKS by Aldous Huxley

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1	Brave New World more books like this by Aldous Huxley add to wishlist A satirical novel depicting a scientific and industrialized utopia in which Ford and Freud are worshipped, eugenics policies have eliminated class conflicts (while strengthening the division of the classes), and personal unhappiness is assuaged through drugs and pornography. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Brave new world & brave new world revisited more books like this by Aldous Huxley add to wishlist A satirical novel depicting a scientific and industrialized utopia in which Ford and Freud are worshipped, eugenics policies have eliminated class conflicts (while strengthening the division of the classes), and personal unhappiness is assuaged through drugs and pornography. see all copies from £2.91! new only from £9.33! \| first editions
3	Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell more books like this by Aldous Huxley add to wishlist Huxley's own account of his experiments with mescaline, a drug derived from peyote and used by Native Americans in Mexico and the southwestern United States in religious ceremonies. see all copies from £4.12! new only from £4.34! \| first editions
4	The perennial philosophy more books like this by Aldous Huxley add to wishlist This non-fiction work by the author of BRAVE NEW WORLD brings together a collection of mystical writings with psychological interpretations intended to expose the metaphysical threads that link many of the world's different faith systems. see all copies from £1.41! new only from £6.55! \| first editions
5	Island more books like this by Aldous Huxley add to wishlist This comic utopian novel is set in Pala, a tropical island in Southeast Asia inhabited by a group of Western exiles dedicated to the contemplative life. When Will Farnaby, an English journalist, comes to Pala, it is with the intention of securing oil leases for his publisher there. However, after trying some of the hallucinogenic mushrooms that ... see all copies from £1.37! new only from £1.76! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Brave new world revisited more books like this by Aldous Huxley add to wishlist An evaluation of the changes that society has undergone since the publication of BRAVE NEW WORLD in 1932, and an examination of the extent to which the book predicted the future. see all copies from £1.26! new only from £3.16! \| first editions
7	Point Counter Point more books like this by Aldous Huxley add to wishlist Huxley's celebrated fictional portrait of London intellectuals in the 1920s includes such characters as the decadent painter John Bidlake and his son Walter, Walter's hapless wife Marjorie Carling, the vile fascist politician Everard Webley, the thoroughly unpleasant Maurice Spandrell, and a revolutionary named Illidge. These characters are offset ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £7.02! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	The Handbook of Non-Violence: Including an Encyclopedia of Pacifism by Aldous Huxley more books like this by Robert Seeley, Aldous Huxley add to wishlist see all copies from £5.61! new only from £13.71! \| signed copies
9	After Many a Summer Dies the Swan more books like this by Aldous Huxley add to wishlist A satirical tale of greed and paranoia by the famed English novelist. It tells the story of a Hollywood millionaire obsessed with death who lives in an imitation castle surrounded by quack doctors and charlatan philosophers who try to convince him that he can prolong his life indefinitely by following their advice. see all copies from £4.99! new only from £9.93! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna more books like this by Swami Nikhilananda (Translator), A. Huxley (Designed by) add to wishlist see all copies from £8.72! new only from £8.72! \| first editions
11	Crome Yellow more books like this by Aldous Huxley add to wishlist Crome is an English country house to which Denis, an intensely self-conscious youth and would-be poet, goes to join a house party populated by a collection of eccentrics, spiritualists, psychoanalysands, aesthetes, and Communists. Denis falls in love with one of the guests but has an otherwise miserable time. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
12	The Devils of Loudun more books like this by Aldous Huxley add to wishlist This account of an actual incident in French ecclesiastical history is recounted by Aldous Huxley, author of BRAVE NEW WORLD. A priest--overly handsome and easy with women--is accused of witchcraft; a convent of nuns is possessed by devils. When the townspeople take sides, the religious authorities intervene and try to condemn the priest and burn ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £6.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Eyeless in Gaza more books like this by Aldous Huxley add to wishlist Aldous Huxley's novel about a young man's slow coming of age during the early decades of the 20th century tells the story of Anthony Beavis, an intelligent boy whose mother dies during his childhood. Disillusioned by the war and further disheartened by the Depression, Anthony leaves England and travels about aimlessly. In Mexico, however, he meets ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £6.20! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	The art of seeing more books like this by Aldous Huxley add to wishlist The true story of how the nearly-blind English novelist Aldous Huxley recovered his vision. As a child, Huxley fell victim to a debilitating illness that left him for many years dependent upon strong eyeglasses. Eventually he discovered the Bates method of vision enhancement and succeeded so well at it that he was able to discard his eyeglasses ... see all copies from £9.89! first editions
15 view cover	Doors of Perception more books like this by Aldous Huxley add to wishlist 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 he opened his eyes everything was transformed. Huxley described his experience in "The Doors of Perception" and its sequel "Heaven and Hell". see all copies from £2.95! new only from £14.93! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Collected Short Stories more books like this by Aldous Huxley add to wishlist Twenty-one distinguished stories, confirming Huxley's stature as one of the giants of modern English prose and of social commentary in our time. see all copies from £3.11! new only from £7.47! \| first editions
17 view cover	Ape and essence more books like this by Aldous Huxley add to wishlist This story of nuclear war and worldwide destruction, in the form of a film scenario, is set in Los Angeles in 2108. It portrays what remains of the world a century after the Third World War has left it in ruins. From spared New Zealand, a "Rediscovery Expedition to North America" has been dispatched, and it is from the experiences of Chief ... see all copies from £1.64! new only from £6.19! \| first editions
18 view cover	Time must have a stop more books like this by Aldous Huxley add to wishlist Sebastian is a young man with the beauty of an angel, the creative power of a great artist and the tiresomeness of a spoilt child. His life in London is dominated by a repressive father, but when Uncle Eustace whisks him away to the splendours of a Florentine palace, life becomes more interesting. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £9.35! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	Zen and the Psychology of Transformation: The Supreme Doctrine more books like this by Hubert Benoit, Aldous Huxley (Introduction by) add to wishlist The Supreme Doctrine applies the essence of Oriental Wisdom to the pursuit of self-knowledge and transcendence. The first step in a holistic psychology is to begin examining the true "state of man," rather than his aberrations. In so doing, we can activate our true potential to transform and give new direction and purpose to our lives. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £8.22! \| first editions
20 view cover	Antic Hay more books like this by Aldous Huxley add to wishlist In Huxley's classic of modernism, a satire of the London intellectual world after World War I, a group of bohemian poseurs pursue art, life, and happiness. Definitely a minor work, ANTIC HAY does manage to capture a particular milieu that Huxley knew well, and many of its unflatteringly portrayed characters are taken from life. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.55! \| first editions
21 view cover	The genius and the goddess more books like this by Aldous Huxley add to wishlist Into the household of physicist Henry Maartens enters Rivers, a scientist who stands in awe of both Maartens and his beautiful wife, Katy. But when the genius ails, and Katy, seeking temporary solace, takes the scientist to bed, Rivers is left to reflect on the uncertain grace of an earth-goddess. see all copies from £2.02! new only from £7.52! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	The Crows of Pearblossom more books like this by Aldous Huxley add to wishlist When Mrs. Crow discovers a snake has been eating her eggs, Mr. Crow and his friend Owl fool Mr. Snake and put an end to that problem. see all copies from £5.88! new only from £25.84! \| first editions
23 view cover	Those Barren Leaves more books like this by Aldous Huxley add to wishlist In a renovated Italian palace set above the blue of the sea, the Junoesque figure of Mrs Aldwinkle moves among her guests. These include a poet who earns his living editing The Rabbit Fancier's Gazette; a popular novelist who records every detail of her affair with another guest as future literary material; and, an aging philosopher who pursues a ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £4.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	Complete Essays more books like this by Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker (Editor), James Sexton (Commentaries by) add to wishlist At their best, HuxleyAIs essays stand among the finest examples of the genre in modern literature. From 1938 to 1956 Aldous Huxley continues to explore the role of science and technology in modern culture, and seeks a final level of foundational Truth that might provide the basis for his growing interest in religious mysticism. It is in this ... see all copies from £15.58! new only from £17.84! \| first editions
25 view cover	Bhagaved Gita: The Song of God by Swami Prabhavananda (Translator), Aldous Huxley (Designed by), Christopher Isherwood (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from £5.96! new only from £10.66!

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