Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone in feeling discontent. Harbouring an unnatural desire for solitude, and a perverse distaste for the pleasures of compulsory promiscuity, Bernard has an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress ...

Huxley's ingenious fantasy of the future sheds a blazing light on the present and is considered to be his most enduring masterpiece.

دنیای قشنگ نو نمایان‌ترین اثر هاکسلی است. بعضی از منتقدان طنز این کتاب را بیش از حد تلخ و تند می‌دانند. پرخاش توفنده‌ای که هاکسلی به صنعت‌گرایی دیوانه‌وار انسان امروز می‌کند، در عین حال هم امید او را به بشر و هم نومیدی او را از بشر نشان می‌دهد. به یک اعتبار در تحلیل آخر، این کتاب را باید خوشبینانه دانست، زیرا با وجود تهدید همه جانبه‌ای که حیات بشر را احاطه کرده‌است، هاکسلی به بقای او اعتقاد دارد. از طرف دیگر شاید بتوان گفت که هاکسلی «امروز» را هجو می‌کند نه آینده را. ناکجاآباد فردای او همین خراب آباد امروز ماست. «دنیای قشنگ نو» از اعقاب جمهوریت افلاطون است و به گفته‌ی یکی از ناقدان، هاکسلی اتوپیا را از آن جهت علم می‌کند که دیگر هرگز علم نشود. آخرین سخنش این است که امکان زیستن هست ولی این‌گونه زیستن زندگانی نیست.

Aldous Huxley's lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest expression both thematically and formally in his masterpiece Point Counter Point . By presenting a vision of life in which diverse aspects of experience are observed simultaneously, Huxley characterizes the symptoms of "the disease of the modern man" in the manner of a composer--themes and characters are repeated, altered slightly, and played off one another in a tone that is at once critical and sympathetic.

First published in 1928, Huxley's satiric view of intellectual life in the '20s is populated with characters based on such celebrities as D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Nancy Cunard, and John Middleton Murry, as well as Huxley himself.

Available in graphic novel form for the first time, Aldous Huxley's classic novel of authoritarianism Brave New World, adapted and illustrated by Fred Fordham, the artist behind the graphic novel edition of To Kill A Mockingbird.

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.

Science, Liberty and Peace

你嚮往一個只有快樂、不需思考的世界嗎？
20世紀的《黑鏡》
引起軒然大波的完美世界謊言

西元2540年，人類社會摒除了痛苦煩惱，階級分明，個人成就出生就注定，因此不需太過努力；生育統一管理，可以盡情享受性愛；甚至還有解憂妙藥甦麻，隨時來一口，再大的不適應不開心都能轉瞬成煙。這種看似美妙的平衡，卻因為一位野蠻人的出現，掀起了波瀾⋯⋯

In his final novel, which he considered his most important, Aldous Huxley transports us to the remote Pacific island of Pala, where an ideal society has flourished for 120 years. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala, and events are set in motion 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.

The Perennial Philosophy is defined by its author as "The metaphysic that recognizes a divine Reality substantial to the world of things and lives and minds." With great wit and stunning intellect, Aldous Huxley examines the spiritual beliefs of various religious traditions and explains them in terms that are personally meaningful.
An inspired gathering of religious writings that reveals the "divine reality" common to all faiths, collected by Aldous Huxley
"The Perennial Philosophy," Aldous Huxley writes, "may be found among the traditional lore of peoples in every region of the world, and in its fully developed forms it has a place in every one of the higher religions."
With great wit and stunning intellect—drawing on a diverse array of faiths, including Zen Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Christian mysticism, and Islam—Huxley examines the spiritual beliefs of various religious traditions and explains how they are united by a common human yearning to experience the divine. The Perennial Philosophy includes selections from Meister Eckhart, Rumi, and Lao Tzu, as well as the Bhagavad Gita, Tibetan Book of the Dead, Diamond Sutra, and Upanishads, among many others.

is a philosophical essay, released as a book, by Aldous Huxley. First published in 1954, it details his experiences when taking mescaline.
The book takes the form of Huxley's recollection of a mescaline trip that took place over the course of an afternoon in May 1953. The book takes its title from a phrase in William Blake's 1793 poem 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell'.
Huxley recalls the insights he experienced, which range from the "purely aesthetic" to "sacramental vision". He also incorporates later reflections on the experience and its meaning for art and religion.

Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress...Huxley's ingenious fantasy of the future sheds a blazing light on the present and is considered to be his most enduring masterpiece.

出版于一九三二年的《美丽新世界》是奥尔德斯•赫胥黎最杰出的代表作，是二十世纪最著名的反乌托邦文学经典之一，与奥威尔的《一九八四》、扎米亚京的《我们》并称为“反乌托邦”三部曲，在国内外文学界和思想界影响深远。这是一部寓言作品，展现了赫胥黎眼中的人类社会的未来图景：通过最有效的科学和心理工程，人类从遗传和基因上就已经被先天设计为各种等级的社会成员，完全沦为驯顺的机器，个性和自由被扼杀，文学艺术濒于毁灭。继《美丽新世界》这部寓言小说杰作之后，赫胥黎又于一九五八年出版了论著《重返美丽新世界》，在这部雄辩的作品中，作者运用其丰富的社会学和人类学知识，比较了现代社会与他在《美丽新世界》中所构想的寓言性图景的方方面面，像人口过剩、宣传和洗脑以及化学劝诱等，认为他早年悲观的预言正在成为现实。本书将赫胥黎这两部最经典的名著全部收入。

In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake. He had been found guilty of conspiring with the devil to seduce an entire convent of nuns in what was the most sensational case of mass possession and sexual hysteria in history. Grandier maintained his innocence to the end and four years after his death the nuns were still being subjected to exorcisms to free them from their demonic bondage. Huxley's vivid account of this bizarre tale of religious and sexual obsession transforms our understanding of the medieval world.

The astonishing novel
, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future--of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently useful to the ruling class. This powerful work of speculative fiction sheds a blazing critical light on the present and is considered to be Aldous Huxley's most enduring masterpiece.
The non-fiction work
, published in 1958, is a fascinating work in which Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with his prophetic fantasy envisioned in
, including the threats to humanity, such as over-population, propaganda, and chemical persuasion.

Selected writings from the author of "Brave New World" and "The Doors of Perception" on the role of psychedelics in society. - Includes letters and lectures by Huxley never published elsewhere. In May 1953 Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gram of mescaline. The mystical and transcendent experience that followed set him off on an exploration that was to produce a revolutionary body of work about the inner reaches of the human mind. Huxley was decades ahead of his time in his anticipation of the dangers modern culture was creating through explosive population increase, headlong technological advance, and militant nationalism, and he saw psychedelics as the greatest means at our disposal to "remind adults that the real world is very different from the misshapen universe they have created for themselves by means of their culture-conditioned prejudices." Much of Huxley's writings following his 1953 mescaline experiment can be seen as his attempt to reveal the power of these substances to awaken a sense of the sacred in people living in a technological society hostile to mystical revelations. Moksha, a Sanskrit word meaning "liberation," is a collection of the prophetic and visionary writings of Aldous Huxley. It includes selections from his acclaimed novels "Brave New World" and "Island," both of which envision societies centered around the use of psychedelics as stabilizing forces, as well as pieces from "The Doors of Perception" and "Heaven and Hell," his famous works on consciousness expansion.

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."

Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress...
Huxley's ingenious fantasy of the future sheds a blazing light on the present and is considered to be his most enduring masterpiece.

Mrs. Adwinkle, a socially ambitious and self-professed lover of art, has collected her entourage in an Italian palace, in the hopes of recapturing the glories of the Italian Renaissance. Unfortunately, her guests -- a suffering poet, a popular novelist, an aging sensualist philosopher -- fail to fulfill her expectations. Stripping the houseguests of their pretensions, Huxley reveals the superficiality of the cultural elite, those who dare to posture or feign sophistication.