New Releases by Aldous Huxley

A critical analysis of Huxley''s influential novel features the writings of Harold H. Watts, George Woodcock, Robert S. Baker, and other scholars.

Over the course of his long career, British writer Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) shifted away from elitist social satires and an uncompromising irreligion toward greater concern For The masses And The use of religious terms and imagery. This change in Huxley''s thinking underpins the previously unpublished playNow More Than Ever. Written in 1932-1933 just afterBrave New World, Now More Than Everis a response To The social, economic, and political upheavals of its time. Huxley''s protagonist is an idealistic financier whose grandiose scheme for industrial renewal drives him to swindling and finally to suicide. His fate allows Huxley to expose the evils he perceives in free-market capitalism while pleading the case for national economic planning And The rationalisation of Britain''s industrial base. This volume contains the full text ofNow More Than Ever, a play hitherto believed to be lost. A "thinker''s play," it is the last of Huxley''s major writings to be published and immensely important to understanding his development as a writer. The editors of this volume have annotated the play for contemporary readers. Their introduction sets the play in the context of Huxley''s intellectual life. David Bradshaw is Hawthornden Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Worcester College, Oxford. James Sexton is a Lecturer in English at Camosun College in Victoria, British Columbia.

A piercing portrayal of a group gathered in an Italian palace by the socially ambitious and self-professed lover of art, Mrs. Aldwinkle. Here, she yearns to capture the glories of the Italian Renaissance, but her guests ultimately fail to fulfill her naive expectations.

A satiric view of intellectual life in the ''20s and is populated with characters based on such celebrities of the time as D.H. Lawrence, KatherineMansfield, Sir Oswald Mosley, Nancy Cunard, and John Middleton Murray, aswell as Huxley himself.

In this anthology of 26 essays, Huxley discusses the nature of spiritual practice, good and evil, religion and magic, and the best texts of the various religious traditions. This is Huxley''s celebration of the ultimate reality.

In Island, his last novel, Huxley transports us to a Pacific island where, for 120 years, an ideal society has flourished. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala and events begin to move when an agent of the conspirators, a newspaperman named Faranby, is shipwrecked there. What Faranby doesn''t expect is how his time with the people of Pala will revolutionize all his values and -- to his amazement -- give him hope.

Breve fra Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) fra årene 1899-1963

"A bore is a person who drills a hole in your spirit... through and through till he pierces to the very quick of your being." -Aldous Huxley, Two or Three Graces and Other Stories (1926) Two or Three Graces and Other Stories (1926) by Aldous Huxley is a collection of four stories including the aforementioned title as well as Half Holiday, The Monocle, and Fairy Godmother. The story Two and Three Graces comprises most of this edition and follows the life of Grace Wilkes who attaches herself to, not two or three as the title suggests, but four different men. More of a novel than short story, the title story offers insights into the human experience as only Huxley can detail and features one of Huxley''s most intriguing characters. This collection is for fans of early twentieth century literature and the inimitable Aldous Huxley.