Aldous Huxley Books In Order

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Crome Yellow (1921)
  2. Antic Hay (1923)
  3. Those Barren Leaves (1925)
  4. Point Counter Point (1928)
  5. Brave New World (1932)
  6. Eyeless in Gaza (1936)
  7. After Many a Summer Dies the Swan (1939)
  8. Time Must Have a Stop (1944)
  9. Ape and Essence (1948)
  10. The Genius and the Goddess (1955)
  11. Brave New World Revisited (1958)
  12. Island (1962)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. Jacob’s Hands (With: Christopher Isherwood) (1939)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. The Burning Wheel (1916)
  2. The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems (1918)
  3. Limbo (1918)
  4. Mortal Coils (1922)
  5. Young Archimedes and Other Stories (1924)
  6. Selected Poems (1925)
  7. Two Or Three Graces and Other Stories (1926)
  8. Arabia Infelix and Other Poems (1929)
  9. Leda (1929)
  10. Brief Candles / After the Fireworks (1930)
  11. The Cicadas and Other Poems (1931)
  12. The Gioconda Smile (1932)
  13. Rotunda. A Selection… (1932)
  14. The Olive Tree and Other Essays (1936)
  15. The Art of Seeing (1942)
  16. Stories, Essays, and Poems (1942)
  17. Little Mexican – Six Stories (1948)
  18. Themes And Variations (1950)
  19. Collected Short Stories (1957)
  20. The Collected Poetry of Aldous Huxley (1971)
  21. Oxford Poetry; Volume 1914-1916 (2012)

Standalone Plays In Publication Order

  1. Now More Than Ever (1933)
  2. The World of Light (2020)

Picture Books In Publication Order

  1. The Crows of Pearblossom (1944)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. On the Margin (1923)
  2. Along the Road: Notes and Essays of a Tourist (1925)
  3. Essays New and Old (1926)
  4. Proper Studies (1928)
  5. Do What You Will (1929)
  6. Holy Face and Other Essays (1929)
  7. Vulgarity in Literature: Digressions from a Theme (1930)
  8. Jesting Pilate (1932)
  9. Texts and Pretexts (1933)
  10. Beyond the Mexique Bay (1934)
  11. Ends and Means (1937)
  12. The Elder Peter Bruegel 1528-1569 (1938)
  13. The Perennial Philosophy (1938)
  14. Words and Their Meanings (1940)
  15. Grey Eminence (1941)
  16. Science, Liberty And Peace (1946)
  17. The Devils of Loudun (1952)
  18. The Doors of Perception (1954)
  19. Adonis and the Alphabet and Other Essays (1956)
  20. Heaven and Hell (1956)
  21. Tomorrow and Tomorrow (1956)
  22. The Human Situation (1959)
  23. On Art and Artists (1960)
  24. Literature And Science (1963)
  25. Aldous Huxley: A Collection of Critical Essays (1968)
  26. Letters of Aldous Huxley. (1969)
  27. Huxley and God (1992)
  28. Music at Night and Other Essays (2020)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. 50 Great Short Stories (1952)
  2. The Ultimate Short Story Bundle (2020)

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Aldous Huxley Books Overview

Antic Hay

London life just after World War I, devoid of values and moving headlong into chaos at breakneck speed Aldous Huxley’s Antic Hay, like Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, portrays a world of lost souls madly pursuing both pleasure and meaning. Fake artists, third rate poets, pompous critics, pseudo scientists, con men, bewildered romantics, cock eyed futurists all inhabit this world spinning out of control, as wildly comic as it is disturbingly accurate. In a style that ranges from the lyrical to the absurd, and with characters whose identities shift and change as often as their names and appearances, Huxley has here invented a novel that bristles with life and energy, what the New York Times called ‘a delirium of sense enjoyment!’

Those Barren Leaves

In a renovated Italian palace high above the blue sea, the Junoesque figure of Mrs Aldwinkle moves among her guests a brilliant Huxleyan cast of posturers. Those Barren Leaves bites the hands of those who dare to feign sophistication and is as comically fresh today as when it was first published.

Point Counter Point

One of Huxley’s masterpieces one of the Modern Library’s ‘100 Best Works of the Century.’ 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.

Brave New World

But, in the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre, Bernard Marx is unhappy. Harbouring an unnatural desire for solitude, feeling only distaste for the endless 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…
/Content /EditorialReview EditorialReview Source Amazon. com Review /Source Content ‘Community, Identity, Stability’ is the motto of Aldous Huxley’s utopian World State. Here everyone consumes daily grams of soma, to fight depression, babies are born in laboratories, and the most popular form of entertainment is a ‘Feelie,’ a movie that stimulates the senses of sight, hearing, and touch. Though there is no violence and everyone is provided for, Bernard Marx feels something is missing and senses his relationship with a young women has the potential to be much more than the confines of their existence allow. Huxley foreshadowed many of the practices and gadgets we take for granted today let’s hope the sterility and absence of individuality he predicted aren’t yet to come.

Eyeless in Gaza

Written at the height of his powers immediately after Brave New World, Aldous Huxley’s highly acclaimed Eyeless in Gaza is his most personal novel. Huxley’s bold, nontraditional narrative tells the loosely autobiographical story of Anthony Beavis, a cynical libertine Oxford graduate who comes of age in the vacuum left by World War I. Unfulfilled by his life, loves, and adventures, Anthony is persuaded by a charismatic friend to become a Marxist and take up arms with Mexican revolutionaries. But when their disastrous embrace of violence nearly kills them, Anthony is left shattered and is forced to find an alternative to the moral disillusionment of the modern world.

After Many a Summer Dies the Swan

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

Time Must Have a Stop

Sebastian Barnack, a handsome English schoolboy, goes to Italy for the summer, and there his real education begins. His teachers are two quite different men: Bruno Rontini, the saintly bookseller, who teaches him about things spiritual; and Uncle Eustace, who introduces him to life’s profane pleasures. The novel that Aldous Huxley himself thought was his most successful at ‘fusing idea with story,’ Time Must Have a Stop is part of Huxley’s lifelong attempt to explore the dilemmas of twentieth century man and to create characters who, though ill equipped to solve the dilemmas, all go stumbling on in their painfully serious comedies in this novel we have the dead atheist who returns in a seance to reveal what he has learned after death but is stuck with a second rate medium who garbles his messages. Time Must Have a Stop is one of Huxley’s finest achievements.

Ape and Essence

Rarely is a book about the theatre as entertaining and informative as Stephen Citron’s new guidebook to the creation of the musical. Filled with anecdotes, practical advice, and sparkling comments from the biggest Broadway insiders, The Musical from the Inside Out examines this major theatrical form from the creator’s point of view. Mr. Citron takes the reader through basic training and onto finding and securing material, writing the libretto, adding the songs, auditioning the players, workshopping, rehearsals, previews, and the excitement of opening night. He reveals the secrets of success as well as some of the common pitfalls of failure. ‘There’s never been a book like this,’ wrote a columnist from London’s West End. Mr. Citron’s bounty of information comes from his own vast experience; from interviews with well known directors, producers, lyricists, composers, librettists, stage managers, and scenic artists; and from such luminaries as Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Jerry Herman, Hal Prince, Jerome Robbins, Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick, John Kander, and Fred Ebb. The Musical From the Inside Out is an adventure for musical fans and required reading for professionals or amateurs involved in creating a musical.

The Genius and the Goddess

Thirty years ago, ecstasy and torment took hold of John Rivers, shocking him out of half baked imbecility into something more nearly resembling the human form. He had an affair with the wife of his mentor, Henry Maartens a pathbreaking physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize, and a figure of blinding brilliance bringing the couple to ruin. Now, on Christmas Eve while a small grandson sleeps upstairs, John Rivers is moved to set the record straight about the great man and the radiant, elemental creature he married, who viewed the renowned genius through undazzled eyes.

Brave New World Revisited

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.

Island

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.

Jacob’s Hands (With: Christopher Isherwood)

Originally written in the late 1930s and recently discovered, this short novel presents a saga of the paranormal, love, money, and redemption, set against the colourful backdrop of California in the 1920s.

The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems

Aldous Leonard Huxley 1894 1963 was an English writer and a member of the famous Huxley family. He is best known for his novel Brave New World. Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and published short stories, poetry, travel writing, and film stories and scripts. Poems in this collection include The Defeat of Youth, Song of Poplars, The Reef, Winter Dream, The Flowers, The Elms. Out of the Window, In spiration, Summer Stillness, Anniversaries, Italy, The Alien, A Litrle Memory, Waking, By the Fire, Valedictory, Love Song, Private Property, Revelation, Minoan Porcelain, The Decameron, In Uncertainty to a Lady, The Life Theoretic, Complaint of a Poet Manque, Social Amenities, Topiary, ON the Bus, Points and Lines, Panic, Return from Business, Stanzas, Poem, Scewnes of the Mind, L’Apres Midi D’un Faune, and The Louse Hunters.

Limbo

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Mortal Coils

Aldous Huxley 1894 1963, the world famous author of BRAVE NEW WORLD, was one of the great literary visionaries of the 20th century. The grandson of Thomas H, Huxley Darwin’s famous defender, he was born in England and educated at Eton and Oxford. He traveled widely in his youth and lived in Italy for a while in the 1920s. He began his literary career with poetry and critical essays, then turned to novels. Having been born just too late to participate in World War I, he was able, in his early works, such as CROME YELLOW 1921, ANTIC HAY 1923, THOSE BARREN LEAVES 1925, and POINT COUNTER POINT 1928, to perfectly capture a sense of purposeless aftermath which resonated strongly in British society at the time. A satirical strain already evident manifested itself spectacularly in BRAVE NEW WORLD 1932, after which much of his work began to show a fantastic or speculative cast, including AFTER MANY A SUMMER DIES THE SWAN about immortality, 1939, TIMES MUST HAVE A STOP 1944, and APE AND ESSENCE a dystopia, 1948. ISLAND, his last work, published in 1962, is a utopia. Late in life he developed an increasing disdain for Western society and an interest in Eastern mysticism and in the possibilities of psychedelic drugs, which he described in THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION 1954. Mortal Coils is a short story collection from Huxley’s early period, including one of his most widely reprinted stories, ‘The Gioconda Smile.’

Young Archimedes and Other Stories

In these semi autobiographical stories, Huxley discourses on life and death, accident and necessity, natives and foreigners. They show Huxley in his most pensive mood, far removed from the didatic counter utopianism with which he is often identified. Young Archimedes takes place in Italy. The story starts as a test in aesthetic sensibilities, between natives and visitors. Guido’s musical predilections, his precocity, was more rooted in Archimedes than in Moart. But the nature of his unusual talents was never quite understood. In contrast, the young English boy, the counterpart, is ordinary to a fault. What happens is a chilling example of a child pushed beyond his limits by well intentioned parents. In Little Mexican, the English visitor learns that life beyond the university is emancipation not just in the literature of Mallarm and the philosophy of Nietsche, but in the sensual ways of the world itself. Emancipation is in the life of love, and in the struggle to remain young. Fard, Hubert and Minnie, and The Portrait take place in France and England, with their themes of unrequited love, affection between lovers of different nations, and social standing.

The Art of Seeing

Both a document and a handbook The Art of Seeing records Aldous Huxley’s victory over near blindness and details the simple exercises anyone can follow to improve eyesight. Using the method devised by Dr. W. H. Bates, ‘the pioneer of visual education,’ as Huxley called him, and heeding the advice of Dr. Bates’ disciple, Margaret D. Corbett, Aldous Huxley conquered a vision problem that had plagued him for more than a quarter century.

Collected Short Stories

Twenty one distinguished stories, confirming Huxley’s stature as one of the giants of modern English prose and of social commentary in our time.

Now More Than Ever

Over the course of his long career, British writer Aldous Huxley 1894 1963 shifted away from elitist social satires and an uncompromising irreligion toward greater concern for the mas*ses and the use of religious terms and imagery. This change in Huxley’s thinking underpins the previously unpublished play ‘Now More Than Ever‘. Written in 1932 1933 just after Brave New World, ‘Now More Than Ever‘ is a response to the social, economic, and political upheavals of its time. Huxley’s protagonist is an idealistic financier whose grandiose scheme for industrial renewal drives him to swindling and finally to suicide. His fate allows Huxley to expose the evils he perceives in free market capitalism while pleading the case for national economic planning and the rationalisation of Britain’s industrial base. This volume contains the full text of ‘Now More Than Ever‘, a play hitherto believed to be lost. A ‘thinker’s play,’ it is the last of Huxley’s major writings to be published and immensely important to understanding his development as a writer. The editors of this volume have annotated the play for contemporary readers. Their introduction sets the play in the context of Huxley’s intellectual life. David Bradshaw is Hawthornden Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Worcester College, Oxford. James Sexton is a Lecturer in English at Camosun College in Victoria, British Columbia.

The Crows of Pearblossom

Written in 1944 by Aldous Huxley as a Christmas gift for his niece, The Crows of Pearblossom tells the story of Mr. and Mrs. Crow, who live in a cottonwood tree. The hungry Rattlesnake that lives at the bottom of the tree has a nasty habit of stealing Mrs. Crow’s eggs before they can hatch, so Mr. Crow and his wise friend, Old Man Owl, devise a sneaky plan to trick him. This funny story of cleverness triumphing over greed, similar in tone and wit to the work of A. A. Milne, shows a new side of a great writer. Paired with stunning illustrations by Sophie Blackall, this timeless tale is sure to grab the attention of many readers adults and children alike. Praise for The Crows of Pearblossom With Huxley’s mordant wit in ample supply, this tale will entertain literary novelty seekers. Publishers Weekly Huxley s story starts good and grim just the thing to hold a young audience. Kirkus Reviews

Jesting Pilate

1926. Huxley, English novelist, essayist, critic, and poet, whose reputation and later work was deeply entwined with spiritualism and hallucinogenic drugs, recounts his experiences traveling through six countries, and offers his observations on their people, cultures, and customs. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Beyond the Mexique Bay

From a calypso tent in Trinidad to the Mayan ruins of Copan, Huxley’s account of his journey through the Caribbean, Guatemala and Mexico during the 1930s is a travel writing classic.

Ends and Means

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The Perennial Philosophy

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.

Grey Eminence

The life of Father Joseph, Cardinal Richelieu’s aide, was a monstrous paradox. After spending his days directing operations on the battlefield Father Joseph would pass the night in prayer, or in composing spiritual guidance for the nuns in his care. He was an aspirant to sainthood, a practising mystic, yet his ruthless exercise of power succeeded in prolonging the Thirty Years War, with all its unspeakable horrors. In his masterful biography, Huxley explores how a religious man could lead such a life and how an individual could reconcile the seemingly opposing moral systems of religion and politics.

The Devils of Loudun

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.

The Doors of Perception

In 1952 Aldous Huxley became involved in the now legendary experiment to clinically detail the physiological and psycho logical effects of the little known drug used by Mexican and Native American elders in religious practices. The drug was Peyote now commonly know as mescalin. By the standards of the time, Huxley was a hard working, respected, and reserved intellectual from a highly intelligent, well know, and eccentric British family. By any standards, the results of the experiment were remarkable. The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell detail the practic alities of the experiment and give Huxley’s vivid account of his im mediate experience and the more prolonged effect upon his sub sequent thinking and awareness. At first, the reader is drawn in by the sheer naivety and tom foolery of the proposal but is soon caught in a finely woven net by the juxtaposition of Huxley’s formidable intellect, his remarkable ability to convey the experience in such acute and truthful detail, and his incredible modesty. In 1922 Gertrude Stein famously wrote A rose is a rose is a rose. In proving her right, Huxley also shows the deeper meaning be hind the apparently simple verse and goes on to deliver such spec tacular accounts of the most everyday objects that the reason for their repeated and continual renderings by all the major artists throughout history suddenly becomes quite clear. For the con scious and willing reader a trip to the Guggenheim, the Louvre or the Tate Modern will never be the same again.

Huxley and God

With three new biographies published in the last year and the continued success of his 1932 novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley is experiencing a remarkable resurgence. In this mind bending collection of essays, Huxley explores the notion of divinity from a variety of perspectives, including his deep knowledge of Eastern philosophy. Will be of great interest to fans of the East and Huxley’s own growing group of followers and devotees.

50 Great Short Stories

50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world’s finest short fiction. The authors represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, and Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, and James Joyce, to Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Faulkner, E.B. White, Saroyan, and O Connor. The variety in style and subject is enormous, but all these stories have one point in common the enduring quality of the writing, which places them among the masterpieces of the world s fiction.

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