Overview

Overview

Works: 1,806 works in 4,212 publications in 36 languages and 151,108 library holdings

Genres: Science fiction, Dystopias, Satire, Utopian fiction, Humorous fiction, Black humor (Literature), Short stories, Comedies, Fables, Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)

Roles: Author of screenplay, Narrator, Editor, Performer,…

Most widely held works

Brave new world

413 editions published between 1932 and 2007 in 25 languages and held by 6,056 libraries worldwide

Six hundred years into the future, humans are bred by cloning, and "mother" and "father" are forbidden words. Originally published in 1932, Huxley's terrifying vision of a controlled and emotionless future "Utopian" society is truly startling in its prediction of modern scientific and cultural phenomena, including test-tube babies and rampant drug abuse.

Point counter point

112 editions published between 1928 and 2006 in 18 languages and held by 3,170 libraries worldwide

Island

49 editions published between 1962 and 2007 in 11 languages and held by 2,312 libraries worldwide

The author's last novel introduces a supposedly Utopian Pacific island where drug use and open sex are encouraged, and children are not at the mercy of one set of parents. In Island, his last novel, Huxley transports us to a Pacific island where, for 120 years, an ideal society has flourished. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala and events begin to move 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.

Crome yellow

92 editions published between 1921 and 2007 in 10 languages and held by 2,109 libraries worldwide

On vacation from school, Denis goes to stay at Crome, an English country house inhabitated by several of Huxley's most outlandish characters--from Mr. Barbecue-Smith, who writes 1,500 publishable words an hour by "getting in touch" with his "subconscious," to Henry Wimbush, who is obsessed with writing the definitive history of chrome. Denis's stay proves to be a disaster amid his weak attempts to attract the girl of his dreams and the ridicule he endures regarding his plan to write a novel about love and art. Lambasting the post-Victorian standards of morality, Chrome yellow is a witty masterpiece that, in F. Scott Fitzgerald's words, "is too ironic to be called satire and too scornful to be called irony."

The perennial philosophy

48 editions published between 1937 and 2004 in 12 languages and held by 2,079 libraries worldwide

[This volume] is both an anthology and an interpretation of the supreme mystics, East and West.-Back cover.

Antic hay

70 editions published between 1923 and 2006 in 14 languages and held by 2,064 libraries worldwide

The careers, romances, life styles and pecadilloes of various British intellectuals, scientists, and artists are dealt with, often with hilarity and sometimes with dark comedy and sophisticated banter.

After many a summer dies the swan

65 editions published between 1939 and 1998 in 13 languages and held by 1,982 libraries worldwide

Through the eyes of Jeremy Pordage, a scholar in middle age, the author examines the extreme wealth and poverty in California as well as the ageing process in humans and animals.

Collected short stories

60 editions published between 1936 and 1994 in 16 languages and held by 1,971 libraries worldwide

Eyeless in Gaza

66 editions published between 1936 and 2004 in 14 languages and held by 1,935 libraries worldwide

Letters of Aldous Huxley

40 editions published between 1921 and 2007 in 4 languages and held by 1,815 libraries worldwide

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence by and about the author, legal documents, portrait photographs, and pictorial works.

The devils of Loudun

48 editions published between 1952 and 2005 in 8 languages and held by 1,762 libraries worldwide

Time must have a stop

53 editions published between 1944 and 1998 in 13 languages and held by 1,654 libraries worldwide

The doors of perception ; and, Heaven and hell

26 editions published between 1956 and 2005 in English and Chinese and held by 1,628 libraries worldwide

"Explores ... the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness ... [and] the effects of mind-expanding drugs"--P. [4] of cover.

Ape and essence

36 editions published between 1948 and 2005 in 11 languages and held by 1,624 libraries worldwide

In the year 2108, a rediscovery expedition from New Zealand arrives in a post-nuclear Los Angeles and tries to make sense of what is left of the survivors. Huxley wrote this in 1948 as a response to the use of atomic weapons in WWII and the emerging Cold War.

Literature and science

9 editions published between 1963 and 1991 in 4 languages and held by 1,530 libraries worldwide

Collected essays

8 editions published between 1958 and 1971 in English and held by 1,509 libraries worldwide

The art of seeing

46 editions published between 1942 and 2006 in 10 languages and held by 1,299 libraries worldwide

[This book] records [the author's] victory over near-blindness and details the simple exercises to improve anyone's eyesight. -Back cover.

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, and other essays

4 editions published between 1956 and 1972 in English and held by 1,227 libraries worldwide

Those barren leaves

59 editions published between 1925 and 2005 in 8 languages and held by 1,216 libraries worldwide

In the bizarre setting of a renovated castle above the Tyrrhenian Sea, Mrs Aldwinkle entertains an assortment of guests who play out the comedy of their incongruity with one another and with their background.

Mortal coils

24 editions published between 1922 and 2003 in 3 languages and held by 936 libraries worldwide

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