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Reproduction of the original: Huxley's Essays by Ernest Rhys
Author : Ernest Rhys
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,93 MB
Release : 2020-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3752387157
Reproduction of the original: Huxley's Essays by Ernest Rhys
Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher :
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 33,83 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Authors, English
ISBN :
"Over his lifetime from 1894 to 1963, Aldous Huxley earned a reputation as one of the giants of modern English prose and of social commentary in our time. Best known for his novels, including Brave New World and Point Counter Point, Huxley was nonetheless very much at home in the essay form. Ranging from journalism to critical reviews to lierary, political, cultural, and philosophical reflections, these essays stand among the finest examples of the genre in modern literature. They also provide absorbing commentary on contmporary currents and events."--Page 2 of cover.
Author : Thomas Henry Huxley
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 34,65 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Herder & Herder
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 22,93 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN :
This volume of essays, written with the authors trademark elegance and wit, tackles subjects such as Action and Contemplation, Religion and Time, Reflections on the Lord's Prayer, and Notes on Zen.
Author : David Garrett Izzo
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 32,44 MB
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0786480033
Aldous Huxley's prophetic novel of ideas warned of a terrible future then 600 years away. Though Brave New World was published less than a century ago in 1932, many elements of the novel's dystopic future now seem an eerily familiar part of life in the 21st century. These essays analyze the influence of Brave New World as a literary and philosophical document and describe how Huxley forecast the problems of late capitalism. Topics include the anti-utopian ideals represented by the rigid caste system depicted, the novel's influence on the philosophy of "culture industry" philosophers Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, the Nietzschean birth of tragedy in the novel's penultimate scene, and the relationship of the novel to other dystopian works.
Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 27,14 MB
Release : 2021-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
This collection of short stories and essays by renowned writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley. This edition includes these stories:, Centenaries, On Re-reading "Candide", Accidie, Subject-matter of Poetry, Water Music, Pleasures, Modern Folk Poetry, Bibliophily, Democratic Art, Accumulations, On Deviating into Sense, Polite Conversation, Nationality in Love, How the Days Draw In!, Tibet, Beauty in 1920, Great Thoughts, Advertisement, Euphues Redivivus, The Author of "Eminent Victorians", A Wordsworth Anthology, Ferhaeren, Edward Lear, Sir Christopher Wren, Ben Jonson, Chaucer
Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Complete Essays of Aldous Huxley
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 32,45 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN :
These first two volumes of a projected five, in preparation for several years, begin a major publishing venture, collecting the complete essays of one of the giants of modern English prose and of social commentary in our time. The first two volumes span the most productive period of Huxley's career. Volume I begins with his essays for Gilbert Murray's Athenaeum and his music essays for the New Westminster Gazette. Volume II continues through the 1920s and includes his controversial essays on India and the empire in "Jesting Pilate." The essays of both volumes range from nuanced assessments of art and architecture to political analyses, history, science, religion, and art, and a newly discovered series on music. Wide-ranging, allusive, and witty, they are informed by the probing skepticism of a highly educated and ironically incisive member of the English upper middle class. Huxley's fascination with the codes and conventions of European culture, his growing apprehensions about the menacing collapse of the European political order, and his awareness of the impact of science and technology on the post-Versailles world of England, France, Germany, and the United States form the basis for his critique. His subjects overlap with the satirical novels he wrote during the period between the wars, culminating in Point Counter Point and Brave New World. At their best, these essays stand among the finest examples of the genre in modern literature.
Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 34,7 MB
Release : 1994
Category : English prose
ISBN : 9780006547389
Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 21,64 MB
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0061893315
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.
Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher :
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 34,98 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Authors, English
ISBN :
"Over his lifetime from 1894 to 1963, Aldous Huxley earned a reputation as one of the giants of modern English prose and of social commentary in our time. Best known for his novels, including Brave New World and Point Counter Point, Huxley was nonetheless very much at home in the essay form. Ranging from journalism to critical reviews to lierary, political, cultural, and philosophical reflections, these essays stand among the finest examples of the genre in modern literature. They also provide absorbing commentary on contmporary currents and events."--Page 2 of cover.