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Mit «Along the Road» lernen wir Aldous Huxley, den Autor der visionären Dystopie «Schöne Neue Welt», von einer bisher kaum bekannten Seite kennen: als großen Reiseschriftsteller. Huxley führt uns durch das Europa der Zwanziger, eine Welt im Umbruch, in der eine neue Mobilität auf alte Formen des Reisens prallt. Auch Huxley erliegt dem Reiz der Geschwindigkeit, wenn er mit seinem 10-PS-Citroën in Oberitalien an kunsteifrigen deutschen Wandervög...

“The wheel must strain through agony / On agony contracting, returning / Into the core of steel.” In these poems, the soul struggles to close the gap between tradition and modernity, to see once more “the dead world…With beauty for its living core.” The Burning Wheel is Aldous Huxley’s debut collection of poetry.

¿Indifferent mystery, she was for him / Something still uncreated, incomplete.¿ In ¿The Defeat of Youth, ¿ the poet muses on earthly and heavenly beauty, on the suddenness with which innocence turns to experience, leaving the world to ¿waver[] like the flame / Of a blown candle. The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems is a poetry collection by Aldous Huxley.

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 specul...

Point Counter Point is a novel by Aldous Huxley, first published in 1928. It is Huxley's longest novel and was notably more complex and serious than his earlier fiction. Born into the prominent Huxley family, he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with an undergraduate degree in English literature. He began his career publishing poetry and short stories, and he edited the literary magazine Oxford Poetry. Later, he published screenplays, ...

Denis, a young writer and poet, travels to an English countryside manor to spend the summer alongside a cast of outlandish leisure class intellectuals. The younger guests of the manor grapple with navigating love and sex within a post-Victorian society. Older guests and inhabitants obsess over trivialities from their vast libraries, eager to give a show of their knowledge to each other. The novel uses these interactions to paint a scathing rep...

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a dystopian novel that delves into the consequences of genetic engineering, conditioning, and the use of a drug called Soma. The story follows Bernard Marx, an Alpha Plus who feels out of place in his regimented world, and John, a Savage who struggles to adapt to the new world he encounters. Huxley explores themes of individuality, freedom, and the impact of technology on human relationships as he weaves a c...

Dive into the shadowy underworld of Dashiell Hammett's 'The Maltese Falcon', a masterpiece that redefined the detective genre. In the fog-laden streets of San Francisco, meet Sam Spade, a sharp-witted private detective with a knack for trouble. When the alluring Miss Wonderly walks into his office, Spade is plunged into a labyrinth of deception and greed. At the heart of this whirlwind is the elusive Maltese Falcon, a priceless artifac t steep...

Immerse yourself in the turbulent world of "The Sound and the Fury, " a masterpiece by Nobel laureate William Faulkner. This groundbreaking novel, first published in 1929, offers a profound exploration of the human condition through the tragic decline of the once-noble Compson family in the American South. Faulkner's innovative narrative technique, which includes a stream-of-consciousness style, plunges readers into the complex inner lives of ...

Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy."In music, counterpoint is the art of writing melodies that play in conjunction with one another, according to a strict set of rules, in order to emphasize the melody by contrast. In debate, point/counterpoint is a means of persuasion in which the speaker begins by conceding to their opponent's argument before refuting it wholeheartedly. Aldous Huxley follows these tradit...

Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy."In music, counterpoint is the art of writing melodies that play in conjunction with one another, according to a strict set of rules, in order to emphasize the melody by contrast. In debate, point/counterpoint is a means of persuasion in which the speaker begins by conceding to their opponent's argument before refuting it wholeheartedly. Aldous Huxley follows these tradit...

Mortal Coils, a classical and rare book that has been considered essential throughout human history, so that this work is never forgotten, we at Alpha Editions 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.

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Englische Literatur in Reclams Roter Reihe: das ist der englische Originaltext - ungekürzt und unbearbeitet mit Worterklärungen am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen. Aldous Huxleys berühmte Dystopie aus dem Jahr 1932 zeichnet ein düsteres Bild einer Zukunft, in der nichts dem Zufall überlassen bleibt. Menschen werden im Auftrag der Weltregierung gezüchtet, in Kasten eingeteilt und mit oberflächlichen Vergnügungen sowie der Dro...

Limbo, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped, revised, and reformatted. The text is readable and clear because these books are not created from scanned copies.

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Bringing The Best Of "Aldous Huxley" Together. This edition includes, "Crome Yellow", "Mortal Coils", "Antic Hay" & "Brave New World".