Aldous Huxley
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After the Fireworks
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Narrator: Michael Page
- Length: 12 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: October 04, 2016
- Language: English
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3.55(191 ratings)
From one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, Aldous Huxley, comes his great novella, set in Rome, about a writer’s affair with a mysterious young fan–now back in print for the first time in the U.S. in more than seventy years and also featuring two other acclaimed short works, plus an original introduction from noted critic Gary Giddins.
“The psychology of the two individuals is shrewdly mastered…. After the Fireworks displays on Huxley’s part a rare but genuine if elusive sympathy as well as a sound perception of human shortcomings.”–New York Times
In After the Fireworks, three of Aldous Huxley’s lost classic pieces of short fiction are collected for the first time. In the title novella, Rome is the stunning backdrop where internationally famous novelist Miles Fanning sets out on a walk down Via Condotti toward the Spanish Steps when he encounters the mysterious Pamela Tarn–a beautiful young American admirer of his work who shares a name, as well as conspicuous personality traits, with a character from his most celebrated book. Though there is a considerable age difference between them and they come from different worlds, both are soon irresistibly drawn into a dangerous affair which has unforeseen consequences.
First published one year before he wrote his classic Brave New World and now back in print for the first time in seventy five years, After the Fireworks is Aldous Huxley at the height of his powers. Featuring an original introduction by National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Gary Giddins, this new collection also includes Uncle Spencer (1924), the story of an aging World War I veteran’s quest for the lost love he met in a prison during the war, and Two or Three Graces (1926), the tale of a passionate and destructive writer’s abusive relationship with an impressionable, bourgeois housewife.
... Read moreAntic Hay
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Narrator: Simon Vance
- Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2009
- Language: English
Theodore Gumbril, a mild young Oxford tutor, has become thoroughly dismayed by the formality of college life and the staid British institutions of learning. An impetuous need for celebration, even rebellion, possesses him. He and his bohemian companions embark on wild and daring bacchanalian adventures that steer them resolutely away from stifling conventions of behavior, charging them for the first time with an exuberant vitality and lust for life.
A sardonic and outspoken novel, Antic Hay unfolds its polemical theme against the backdrop of London’s postwar nihilistic bohemia. This is Huxley at his biting, brilliant best—a novel charged with excitement and loud with satiric laughter at conventional morality and stuffy people everywhere.
... Read moreBrave New World
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano And The Icon Players
- Length: 6 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: Author's Republic
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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3.99(1758247 ratings)
Brave New World is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published a year later. Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into 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 that is challenged by only a single individual: the story’s protagonist. Huxley followed this book with a reassessment in essay form, Brave New World Revisited (1958), and with his final novel, Island (1962), the utopian counterpart. The novel is often compared to George Orwell’s 1884.
Brave New World has frequently been banned and challenged since its original publication. It has landed on the American Library Association list of top 100 banned and challenged books of the decade since the association began the list in 1990.
Author Aldous Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly fifty books, both novels and non-fiction works—as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems.
Born into the prominent Huxley family, he graduated from Oxford, with an undergraduate degree in English literature. Early in his career, he published short stories and poetry and edited the literary magazine Oxford Poetry, before going on to publish travel writing, satire, and screenplays. Huxley spent the latter part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death. By the end of his life, Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times and was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 1962.
Also includes several ultra-rare previously unheard conversations with the esteemed intellectual.
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Brave New World
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Narrator: Michael York
- Length: 8 hours 0 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2008
- Language: English
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3.99(1558291 ratings)
Originally published in 1932, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today than ever before.
“One of the most prophetic dystopian works of the 20th century” –Wall Street Journal
Cloning, feel-good drugs, antiaging programs, and total social control through politics, programming, and media–has Aldous Huxley accurately predicted our future? With a storyteller’s genius, he weaves these ethical controversies in a compelling narrative that dawns in the year 632 AF (After Ford, the deity). When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity.
A powerful work of speculative fiction that has enthralled and terrified readers for generations, Brave New World is both a warning to be heeded and thought-provoking yet satisfying entertainment.
... Read moreCrome Yellow
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Narrator: Simon Vance
- Length: 5 hours 56 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2007
- Language: English
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3.43(5368 ratings)
One of the greatest prose writers and social commentators of the twentieth century, Aldous Huxley here introduces us to a delightfully cynical, comic, and severe group of artists and intellectuals engaged in the most freethinking and modern kind of talk imaginable. Poetry, occultism, ancestral history, and Italian primitive painting are just a few of the subjects competing for discussion among the amiable cast of eccentrics drawn together at Crome, an intensely English country manor.
When the quirky group has gathered for the house party, Henry Wimbush, the owner and self-appointed historian of the estate, relates Crome’s history; apocalypse is prophesied, and a young, sensitive poet suffers from unrequited love. This stunning satire of the fads and fashions of the time is not to be missed.
... Read moreCrome Yellow
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano And The Ark
- Length: 6 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: Author's Republic
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
Crome Yellow, first novel by Aldous Huxley, published in 1921. The book is a social satire of the British literati in the period following World War I. The book revolves around the hapless love affair of Denis Stone, a sensitive poet, and Anne Wimbush. Anne’s uncle, Henry Wimbush, hosts a party at his country estate, Crome, that brings together a humorous coterie of characters.
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Geoffrey Giuliano is the author of over thirty internationally bestselling biographies, including the London Sunday Times bestseller ‘Blackbird: The Life and Times of Paul McCartney’ and ‘Dark Horse: The Private Life of George Harrison’. He can be heard on the Westwood One Radio Network and has written and produced over seven hundred original spoken word albums and documentaries on various aspects of popular culture. In addition, Giuliano is an occasional lecturer at Northwestern University. He is also a well-known movie actor in such films as ‘Squid Game’, ‘Mechanic Resurrection’, ‘Hard Target 2’ and the ‘Scorpion King’ series, among many. Geoffrey is a near lifelong devotee of Sri Krsna and an ardent animal rights advocate. He makes his home in Bangkok, Vrndavana, and Jaipur India with his son Eden Garret Giuliano
Crome Yellow
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Narrator: Michael Maloney
- Length: 6 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2012
- Language: English
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3.43(5368 ratings)
Denis Stone, a self-conscious young poet, is invited to Crome, renowned for its gatherings of intellectuals. Hosted by Henry and Priscilla Wimbush, the house party has much to offer the naive Denis. The guests include the self-contained Anne, whom Denis adores; the handsome artist Gombauld, his rival for Anne’s affections; and the cynical Mr. Scogan. All have their stories and ideas to unfold but, as Denis comes to realize, ideas cannot compensate for reality.
... Read moreCrome Yellow
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Narrator: Aldous Huxley
- Length: 6 hours 14 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: July 03, 2015
- Language: English
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3.43(5368 ratings)
A satirical account of English society in the early 20th century, Crome Yellow is Aldous Huxley’s first novel. Henry Wimbush is the owner of Crome, a stately manor house, and the host of a large party. His guests take advantage of his hospitality, pursuing their own romantic, political, and social agendas. Denis Stone, the hero of the tale, attempts to record the events of the party in poetry even as his own romantic plans go awry. A send-up of the traditional English country house novel, Crome Yellow contains thematic hints of Huxley’s masterpiece to come, Brave New World.
... Read moreIsland
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Length: 11 hours 27 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: September 13, 2016
- Language: English
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3.86(30050 ratings)
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.
Leda
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano And The Carpathian Players
- Length: 6 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: Author's Republic
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
Though he gained recognition for his later essays and novels, Aldous Huxley started his writing career as a poet. Published in 1920, Leda is his fourth compilation of poetry. It begins with the passionate and slightly erotic poem “Leda”, which recalls the love affair between Queen Leda, the mother of Helen of Troy, and her swan, Zeus in disguise. Some short poems follow. The book ends with two long sections. The first, “Beauty,” is a short collection of vignettes where the author reflects on the concept of beauty through an ideal model of physical desire, Helen of Troy. The second, “Soles Occidere et Redire Possunt,” or “Suns Can Set, and Suns Can Rise Again,” is another long poem which reflects a day in the life of John Ridley, a deceased friend of Huxley’s, who was mentally challenged throughout his entire life.
Author Aldous Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly fifty books, both novels and non-fiction works—as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems.
Born into the prominent Huxley family, he graduated from Oxford, with an undergraduate degree in English literature. Early in his career, he published short stories and poetry and edited the literary magazine Oxford Poetry, before going on to publish travel writing, satire, and screenplays. Huxley spent the latter part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death. By the end of his life, Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times and was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 1962.
Also includes several ultra-rare previously unheard conversations with the esteemed intellectual.
Produced by Macc Kay
Production Executive Avalon Giuliano
ICON Intern Eden Garret Giuliano
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Mortal Coils
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Narrator: Simon Vance
- Length: 4 hours 8 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2011
- Language: English
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3.46(254 ratings)
Mortal Coils is a collection of five pieces, which were written by Aldous Huxley in the 1920s. The first one, “The Giaconda Smile,” is a short murder story. “Permutations among the Nightingales” is a play concerning amorous problems had by patrons of a certain establishment. “The Tillotson Banquet” tells of an old artist who was thought to be dead. “Green Tunnels” is about the boredom of a young girl on holiday with her family. “Nuns at Luncheon” is a story being told of a nun falling in love. The story mocks the writer’s process, a concept Huxley used in his “Crome Yellow.” Each story is read by the talented narrator, Simon Vance.
... Read moreSelected Poems Aldous Huxley
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Narrator: Nano Nagle
- Length: 1 hours 0 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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5(1 ratings)
A beautiful selection of poems from a young man who would become a brilliant author and essayist, a thinker who was very much at the forefront of changes in the twentieth century. Here is a book that could be carried in your pocket and read quickly–a poem of innocent love or remembrance of events that make the boy become the man.
... Read moreThe Devils of Loudun
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Length: 13 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: August 15, 2017
- Language: English
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3.87(2904 ratings)
In 1632 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.
A remarkable true story of religious and sexual obsession, The Devils of Loudon is considered by many to be Brave New World author Aldous Huxley’s nonfiction masterpiece.
The Divine Within
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Length: 7 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: October 29, 2019
- Language: English
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4.14(446 ratings)
Brave New World author Aldous Huxley on enlightenment and the “ultimate reality.”
In this anthology of twenty-six essays and other writings, Huxley discusses the nature of God, enlightenment, being, good and evil, religion, eternity, and the divine. Huxley consistently examined the spiritual basis of both the individual and human society, always seeking to reach an authentic and clearly defined experience of the divine.
The Doors of Perception
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Narrator: Rudolph Schirmer
- Length: 2 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2009
- Language: English
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3.93(36431 ratings)
The critically acclaimed novelist and social critic Aldous Huxley describes his personal experimentation with the drug mescaline and explores the nature of visionary experience. The title of this classic 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.”
... Read moreThe Genius and the Goddess
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Length: 3 hours 9 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: November 12, 2019
- Language: English
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.
... Read moreThe Perennial Philosophy
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Length: 12 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: September 20, 2017
- Language: English
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4.12(5660 ratings)
“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.