Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including novels and non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives, and poems.
In a future where happiness comes from chemicals and individuality is gone, one man's desire for real experience threatens the calm, controlled society.
Huxley's novel portrays a future where genetic engineering and conditioning create a docile populace. It explores the cost of manufactured happiness and how overpopulation and propaganda bring his dystopian vision closer to home.
Aldous Huxley's novel dissects the intellectual elite of the 1920s, showing the comedy and tragedy that comes from their ideals clashing with their messy lives.
Shipwrecked on a utopian island, a cynical journalist sent to orchestrate its downfall finds his own values transformed by the society he was sent to destroy.
A post-apocalyptic expedition to nuclear-ravaged California discovers that humanity's greatest destruction lies not in radiation, but in its own moral decay.
Aldous Huxley condenses centuries of spiritual wisdom from various faiths into one study of humanity's shared search for the divine reality that underlies all existence.
Through Anthony Beavis's fragmented memories and changing views, 'Eyeless in Gaza' examines a generation's intellectual and spiritual problems as it deals with pacifism, promiscuity, and finding purpose before a war.
In a 17th-century French town, a charismatic priest's ambition and a convent of Ursuline nuns' spiritual fervor ignite a terrifying conflagration of alleged demonic possession, mass hysteria, and political intrigue, culminating in a dramatic and horrifying inquisition.
