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Click to view full description | 1. | Huxley, Aldous Brave New World Granada 1982 Paperback Paperback in good condition, pages yellowed with age and some creasing to spine.Huxley's nightmare vision of the future, first published in 1932. Price: 6.00 GBP | See Full Description |
| 2. | Huxley, Aldous Crome Yellow Flamingo March 30, 1994 Paperback Paperback in average readable condition.A shy young poet encounters an assortment of strange characters at a house party in the English countryside and desires to tell his host's beautiful niece of his love for her. Price: 1.50 GBP | See Full Description |
 | 3. | Huxley, Aldous Doors of Perception HarperCollins 1982 Paperback Paperback in good condition. Pages yellow with age.Heaven and Hell. Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness.FROM THE PUBLISHERAs only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and theunmapped areas of human consciousness. These two astounding essays are among the most profound studies of the effects of mind-expanding drugs writtenin this century.Author Biography:The longer fiction of Aldous Huxley has been in the mainstream of the ''Novel of Ideas'' since the publication in England in 1921 (America 1922) of Crome Yellow, his first novel. Huxley is one of the most skillful and most successful social satirists of the twentieth century. His novels go far in defining the character of modern man, while his later work reflects an interestin mysticism and the effect of the consciousness-expanding drugs.Born in England in 1894, Mr. Huxley took to writing when his eyesight temporarily failed. From 1934 until his death in 1963, Aldous Huxley lived in California. Price: 5.00 GBP | See Full Description |
 | 4. | Huxley, Aldous Eyeless in Gaza Flamingo 1984 Paperback Paperback in good condition. Pages yellow with age.The story of Anthony Beavis, who discovers that the liberty he has achieved - freedom from financial worries, family ties and personal relationships - is nothing more than a monument to moral cowardice. Price: 3.00 GBP | See Full Description |
 | 5. | Huxley, Aldous Point Counter Point Flamingo 1986 Paperback Paperback in average condition. Pages yellow with age and some minor creasing to cover.Huxley's fourth novel is both a portrait of the brilliant and frivolous intellectual and artistic circles of the 1920s, and an examination of the eternal question, ''what is the happy, healthy life?'' It contains portraits of D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Ottoline Morrell and Huxley himself. Price: 3.00 GBP | See Full Description |
 | 6. | Huxley, Aldous The Art of Seeing Creative Arts Book Company 1977 Paperback Paperback in good condition.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. Price: 45.00 GBP | See Full Description |
| 7. | Huxley, Aldous The Art of Seeing Flamingo March 14, 1994 Paperback Paperback in good condition, ex library book with own plastic cover. Flamingo Modern Classics.At the age of 16, Huxley was stricken with an eye disease which left him in a state of near-blindness for many years thereafter. In 1939, in a state of exasperation, he began to practise the method of visual re-education evolved by Dr W.H. Bates. Within two months he was reading without spectacles and without eyestrain. An enthusiastic convert, Huxley wrote this book, a homage to the Bates method and a serious challenge to the orthodox medical profession. Price: 50.00 GBP | See Full Description |
 | 8. | Huxley, Aldous The Human Situation HarperCollins Publishers 1983 Paperback Paperback in good condition. Some minor shelf ware to cover.Lectures at Santa Barbara, 1959. This volume of essays - on the theme of man's relationship with the environment, both natural and social - illuminates not only the problems, but also the potentialities of the modern world. Huxley alerted the world to the dangers of the deteriorating planet over 30 years ago. Price: 10.00 GBP | See Full Description |
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