Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, inhabited by genetically modified citizens and an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning that are combined to make a dystopian society which is challenged by only a single individual: the story's protagonist.

◎全書搭配西方繪畫彩圖。
◎赫胥黎無可比擬的致幻記，近代首次完整紕漏用藥體驗的文獻。
◎理解《美麗新世界》中藥物政治的祕境，進入赫胥黎世界不可或缺的敲門磚。
◎神祕經驗的忠實紀錄與深度思索，一睹藝術靈光的堂奧。
◎藉迷幻藥攀越巔峰同時跌落谷底的門戶樂團（The Doors）團名由來。
赫胥黎用藥經驗的第一手文獻：
探索人類心智最超越境界、最危險邊陲
誰在呼喚你 你從容回應
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly…
「我不需要舒服。我需要上帝，需要詩，需要真正的危險，需要自由……」
──赫胥黎《美麗新世界》
● 赫胥黎無可比擬的致幻記，近代首次完整披露用藥體驗的文獻。
● 理解《美麗新世界》中藥物政治的祕境，進入赫胥黎世界不可或缺的敲門磚。
● 神祕主義經驗的忠實紀錄與深度思索，一睹藝術靈光的奧祕。
● 藉迷幻藥攀越巔峰同時跌落谷底的門戶樂團（The Doors）團名由來。
「我想，我見證了亞當被造出來那個清晨所見的一切──每時每刻都有奇蹟，以赤裸裸的方式顯現。」《眾妙之門》（The Doors of Perception）此書名借用了英國詩人、畫家威廉．布萊克的詩句：「如果我們將知覺的門洗滌致淨，萬物便會以其無限的原貌出現在我們眼前。人們若將自己封閉起來，便只能從洞穴的狹窄細縫中窺探事物。」
赫胥黎出身科學與藝術世家，同代評論者咸認他是「前所未見」、具科學智識兼而擁有文學底蘊的創造性作家。赫胥黎十二歲開始寫作小說，十六歲因眼角膜受損傷及視力，此期間，赫胥黎學習盲人識字系統，由於視力問題棄捨了科學門廊，轉投文學廟堂。赫胥黎首部小說《克羅姆．耶婁》（Crome Yellow，1921）以憤世嫉俗的口吻，對現世社會發表嚴肅批判。二十世紀經典反烏托邦讀本《美麗新世界》中，他更進一步闡述新世界親情將不復存在、宗教失去價值、知識屢遭迫害，人類將停止追求真理，淪為滿足感官逸樂的原始動物，既無批判能力，亦無否定意識。赫胥黎警告人類勿耽戀於物質，並抨擊當代對科技文明的盲目憧憬，乃是一種反自然的無知悲劇。
〈眾妙之門〉被譽為吸毒者聖經，是赫胥黎1953年親試致幻劑「麥司卡林」後的筆記集冊，其中述及「不經文字、直探感官極限」的親身體驗，影響西方當代文化，更是藥物文化與藝術體驗、宗教信仰結合論述之濫觴。〈天堂與地獄〉則可視作一續篇，深入探討了藝術經驗的感官極限與非常態的心智情況。或有論者認為：赫胥黎以文字表達自己對麥司卡林的體驗與評價，導致後世無數人生命淪毀。門戶樂團主唱吉姆‧莫里森（Jim Morrison）更提及，組團時正是讀了此書，深感書中所述與團員經驗的冥應，職是之故，樂團才命名為響亮而簡短的「門」。
神話學家喬瑟夫‧坎伯（Joseph Campbell）：「……大腦是禁錮者。它會收束我們的知識，然而一旦我們的大腦被迷幻藥一類東西炸得粉碎，那些禁錮便消失了。我們固然都得生活於此時此地，侷限於我們的特殊觀點，然我們若想成為類似湯瑪斯‧曼、喬伊斯、保羅‧克利與畢卡索那樣的藝術家，就須進入其他觀點，進入總體的全局幅度。這是一個極深刻的挑戰。」
神祕主義詩人威廉．布萊克（William Blake）：「一沙一世界，一花一天堂。掌中握無限，剎那即永恆。」
赫胥黎：「LSD，100 µg，肌內注射。」（1963.11.22）
赫胥黎死前要求妻子使用100微克的LSD，分兩次注射入體內，此舉動機難測：LSD既無止痛療效，也不能引發意識安定感。是否，赫胥黎希望能在生死交關的瞬間，進入無意識，以便與那不可言說的真實之域接軌？

Two classic complete books -- The Doors of Perception (originally published in 1954) and Heaven and Hell (originally published in 1956) -- in which Aldous Huxley, author of the bestselling Brave New World, explores, as only he can, the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness. These two astounding essays are among the most profound studies of the effects of mind-expanding drugs written in the twentieth century. These two books became essential for the counterculture during the 1960s and influenced a generation's perception of life.</p>

In 1958, Aldous Huxley wrote what might be called a sequel to his novel Brave New World, published in 1932, but it was a sequel that did not revisit the story or the characters, or re-enter the world of the novel. Instead, he revisited that world in a set of 12 essays. Taking a second look at specific aspects of the future Huxley imagined in Brave New World, Huxley meditated on how his fantasy seemed to be turning into reality, frighteningly and much more quickly than he had ever dreamed.
That he had been so prophetic in 1931 about the dystopian future gave Huxley no comfort. He was a far more serious man in 1958 -- at the age of 64 -- and the world was a very different place, transformed by the catastrophe of World War II, the advent of nuclear weapons and the grip of the Cold War. Looking behind the Iron Curtain, where people were not free but dominated by totalitarian power, Huxley could only bow to the grim prophecy of his friend (and, briefly, his student at Eton) George Orwell in the novel 1984. In the free world, however, the situation seemed even more to be one for despair. For it seemed to Huxley that people were well on their way to giving up their freedom and the sanctity of their individualism, in exchange for the illusions of comfort and sensory pleasure -- just as they had in Brave New World.
Huxley heard, in 1958, a world full of the noise of what he called singing commercials, flooding the mass media, much like the hypnopaedia that shaped conscious thought in the world of the novel. He saw people everywhere in greater numbers taking tranquilizer drugs, to surrender to the unacceptable aspects of modern life -- not unlike the drug called soma that everyone takes in the novel. The power of propaganda, he believed, had been validated by the rise of Hitler, and the postwar world was using it effectively to manipulate the masses. Overpopulation was already a critical issue in 1958, and Huxley saw the emergence of an overpopulated world in which the chaos was, more and more, being countered by centralized control -- closer, it seemed, to the future of Brave New World, where the ultimate controlling capitalist of Huxley´s early years, Henry Ford, had become the equivalent of God.
In the end, Brave New World Revisited despairs of what has come to pass, primarily modern humankind´s willingness to surrender freedom for pleasure. Huxley quotes from the episode of the Grand Inquisitor in The Brothers Karamazov -- ´For nothing,´ the Inquisitor insists, ´has ever been more insupportable for a man or a human society than freedom.´ Huxley worried that the cry of "Give me liberty or give me death" could easily be replaced by "Give me television and hamburgers, but don´t bother me with the responsibilities of liberty." He saw hope in the form of education, even the most pious, orthodox and inefficient kind of education -- education that can teach people to see beyond the easy slogans, efficient ends and anesthetic influences of propaganda. Perhaps the forces that now menace freedom are too strong to be resisted for every long, Huxley concluded. It is still our duty to do whatever we can to resist them.

Half an hour after swallowing the drug I became aware of a slow dance of golden lights . . . Among the most profound explorations of the effects of mind-expanding drugs ever written, here are two complete classic books— The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell —in which Aldous Huxley, author of the bestselling Brave New World , reveals the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness. This new edition also features an additional essay, "Drugs That Shape Men's Minds," which is now included for the first time.

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 modern man" in the manner of a composer themes and characters 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 of the time as D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Sir Oswald Mosley, Nancy Cunard, and John Middleton Murray, as well as Huxley himself. A major work of the 20th century and a monument of literary modernism, this edition includes an introduction by acclaimed novelist Nicholas Mosley (author of Hopeful Monsters and the son of Sir Oswald Mosley). Along with Brave New World (written a few years later), Point Counter Point is Huxley's most concentrated attack on the scientific attitude and its effect on modern culture.

Aldous Huxley's acclaimed and gripping account of one of the strangest occurrences in history In 1643 an entire convent in the small French village of Loudun was apparently possessed by the devil. After a sensational and celebrated trial, the convent's charismatic priest Urban Grandier—accused of spiritually and sexually seducing the nuns in his charge—was convicted of being in league with Satan. Then he was burned at the stake for witchcraft. In this classic work by the legendary Aldous Huxley—a remarkable true story of religious and sexual obsession considered by many to be his nonfiction masterpiece—a compelling historical event is clarified and brought to vivid life.

When the novel "Brave New World" first appeared in 1932, its shocking analysis of a scientific dictatorship seemed a projection into the remote future. Here, in one of the most important and fascinating books of his career, Aldous Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with his prophetic fantasy. He scrutinizes threats to humanity, such as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion, and explains why we have found it virtually impossible to avoid them. "Brave New World Revisited" is a trenchant plea that humankind should educate itself for freedom before it is too late.

Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through the clever mix of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs, everyone is a happy consumer. Bernard Marx seems alone in his discontent.</p>

A brilliant social satire, it’s also been called the Vanity Fair for the Twenties: the dilettantes who frequent Lady Tantamount’s society parties engage in dazzling and witty conversations in these wickedly funny portraits of D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Ottoline Morrell and Huxley himself.</p>

The Doors of Perception is a 1954 book by Aldous Huxley detailing his experiences when taking mescaline. This short book is considered to be one of the most profound studies of the effects of mind-expanding drugs and what they teach about how the mind works.
The title comes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell:
"If the doors of perception were cleansed,every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through narrow chinks of his cavern."

Aldous Huxley's tour de force, "Brave New World" is a darkly satiric vision of a "utopian" future where humans are genetically bred and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a ruling order. A powerful work of speculative fiction that has enthralled and terrified readers for generations, it remains remarkably relevant to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying entertainment.

小说说美国一位富翁追求长生不老的灵丹，出钱支助科学界研究长寿秘诀，结果竟在英国发现十八世纪一位贵族的日记，说是生吃鲤鱼（carp）的内脏可以长寿，这位贵族从十八世纪活到二十世纪的三十年代还不死。可是，想活几百年的人必须付出代价：变成人猿。富翁觉得人猿性生活非常愉快，变成人猿也不错："They seem to be having a pretty good time"。小说的书名於是套了田尼森的诗句「夏去夏来天鹅死」（"after many a summer dies the swan"）。

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.

Twenty-one distinguished stories, confirming Huxley's stature as one of the giants of modern English prose and of social commentary in our time. A very good book. --V. S. Pritchett

In this savage novel Huxley transports us to Los Angeles in the year 2018, where we learn to our dismay about the 22nd-century way of life.

A Hollywood millionaire with a terror of death, whose personal physician happens to be working on a theory of longevity--these are the elements of Huxley's caustic and entertaining satire on man's desire to live indefinitely. A highly sensational plot that will keep astonishing you to practically the final sentence. --The New Yorker