Bøger af Aldous Huxley

A story set in the 1920s that involves a ranch worker who has the power to heal with his hands.

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.

Aldous Huxley spares no one in his ironic, piercing portrayal of a group gathered in an Italian palace by the socially ambitious and self-professed lover of art, Mrs. Aldwinkle. Here, Mrs. Aldwinkle yearns to recapture the glories of the Italian Renaissance, but her guests ultimately fail to fulfill her naive expectations. Among her entourage are: a suffering poet and reluctant editor of the Rabbit Fanciers' Gazette who silently bears the widowed Mrs. Aldwinkle's desperate advances; a popular novelist who records every detail of her affair with another guest, the amorous Calamy, for future literary endeavors; and an aging sensualist philosopher who pursues a wealthy yet mentally-disabled heiress. Stripping the houseguests of their pretensions, Huxley reveals the superficiality of the cultural elite. Deliciously satirical, Those Barren Leaves bites the hands of those who dare to posture or feign sophistication and is as comically fresh today as when first published.

Aldous Huxley's stature as one of the most acute observers of social and ideological trends is reinforced by these essays, which register his growing ambivalence about the role of technocracy and science in an era of experimentation in the concentration of executive and legislative power.

London life just after World War I, devoid of values and moving headlong into chaos at breakneck speed - Aldous Huxley's Antic Hay, like Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, portrays a world of lost souls madly pursuing both pleasure and meaning. Fake artists, third-rate poets, pompous critics, pseudo-scientists, con-men, bewildered romantics, cock-eyed futurists - all inhabit this world spinning out of control, as wildly comic as it is disturbingly accurate. In a style that ranges from the lyrical to the absurd, and with characters whose identities shift and change as often as their names and appearances, Huxley has here invented a novel that bristles with life and energy, what the New York Times called "a delirium of sense enjoyment!"

In this fifth of six volumes, covering Huxley's essays in the period of 1938-1956, 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 of his growing interest in religious mysticism.

Contemporary intellectuals still struggle over the relationship of ends to means, especially in political discourse

In this fourth volume of a projected six, Huxley registers his deep misgivings about the course of history in the late 1930s as the world moved toward a second global war. Many of his essays reflect his continuing interest in the conventions of popular culture as well as the philosophy of science and history, particularly as they inform developments in art and politics.

On vacation from school, Denis goes to stay at Crome, an English country house inhabitated by several of Huxley's most outlandish characters--from Mr. Barbecue-Smith, who writes 1,500 publishable words an hour by "getting in touch" with his "subconscious," to Henry Wimbush, who is obsessed with writing the definitive HISTORY OF CROME. Denis's stay proves to be a disaster amid his weak attempts to attract the girl of his dreams and the ridicule he endures regarding his plan to write a novel about love and art. Lambasting the post-Victorian standards of morality, CROME YELLOW is a witty masterpiece that, in F. Scott Fitzgerald's words, "is too irnonic to be called satire and too scornful to be called irony."

These first two volumes of a projected six collect the complete essays of one of the major writers of the 20th century. "His reading was immense, his taste impeccable, and his ear acute....His place in English literature is unique and is certainly assured."-T. S. Eliot. Edited with Commentary by Robert S. Baker and James Sexton.

These first two volumes of a projected six collect the complete essays of one of the major writers of the 20th century. "His reading was immense, his taste impeccable, and his ear acute....His place in English literature is unique and is certainly assured."-T. S. Eliot. Edited with Commentary by Robert S. Baker and James Sexton.

A gripping biography by the author of Brave New WorldThe life of Father Joseph, Cardinal Richelieu's aide, was a shocking paradox. After spending his days directing operations on the battlefield, Father Joseph would pass the night in prayer, or in composing spiritual guidance for the nuns in his care.

A gripping biography by the author of Brave New WorldIn 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake.

Selected writings from the author of Brave New Worldand The Doors of Perceptionon the role of psychedelics in society.

WITH A FOREWORD BY DAVID LODGEWhen inspiration leads Theodore Gumbril to design a type of pneumatic trouser cushion to ease the discomfort of sedentary life, he decides the time has come to give up teaching and seek his fortune in the metropolis.

In a renovated Italian palace set above the blue of the sea, the Junoesque figure of Mrs Aldwinkle moves among her guests. Deliciously satirical, Those Barren Leaves bites the hands of those who dare to posture or feign sophistication and is as comically fresh today as when it was first published.

A dystopian classicIn February 2108, the New Zealand Rediscovery Expedition reaches California at last. The expedition expects to find physical destruction but they are quite unprepared for the moral degradation they meet.

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"Himmel og helvede" er en fortsættelse og videreudvikling af "Erkendelsens døre", hvori Aldous Huxley redegør for resultaterne af sit eksperiment med det narkotiske middel mescalin.I "Himmel og helvede" påviser forfatteren, at også andre stoffer – f.eks. kulsyre eller visse hormoner, der udskilles i organismen under påvirkning af vidtdreven askese, selvpiskning osv. – kan fremkalde anormale sindstilstande og visioner, der ligner dem, mystikerne beskriver.Aldous Huxley hævder, at en erfarings åndelige værdi ikke anfægtes af dens fysiologisk oprindelse. Og han henter sine eksempler bl.a. fra juveler, malerier, fyrværkeri og teatrets verden for at illustrere sine dybt fængslende teorier.Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) var en engelsk forfatter og filosof, der er bedst kendt for sin dystopiske roman "Fagre nye verden" og essayet "Erkendelsens døre", som fortæller om hans personlige oplevelser med psykedeliske stoffer. Aldous Huxley interesserede sig for forskellige emner som etik, politik og mysticisme og skrev både romaner, noveller, digte, rejseskildringer, essays, prosa og filmmanuskripter.

Det idealsamfund, som store dele af menneskeheden søger, finder den britiske journalist Will Farnaby på øen Pala. Det er skabt af en skotsk læge sammen med en buddhistisk maharaja og har eksisteret nu i et par menneskealdre. Man har lykkeligt undgået omverdenens "fremskridt", blot skabt en stat af lykkelige mennesker. Men Farnaby repræsenterer også en oliemagnat, der vil have fat i øens naturrigdomme. Inden han selv kommer til erkendelse af, hvad han er med til at ødelægge, er vejen banet så øens unge tronarving kan få sine magtønsker opfyldt - årtiers arbejde står i fare for at ødelægges på en enkelt nat. "Ø" er en roman med en række mennesker man føler sig tiltrukket af. At læse den er en oplevelse så stor, at man ikke helt er den samme som før man læste den. Bemærk venligt at Visdomsbøgerne har som en del af vores profil, at vi forsøger at bevare centrale tekster, så de er tilgængelige - og at vi har oplevet at enkelte kunder har gjort opmærksom på fejl på eksemplarer af det nuværende oplag af denne titel. Netop af denne årsag har vi valgt at tilbyde 25% rabat på køb af bogen, da man ved køb kan opleve fejl ved enkelte eksemplarer af bogen.