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Island is a 1962 utopian manifesto and novel by English writer Aldous Huxley, the author's final work before his death in 1963. Although it has a plot, the plot largely serves to further conceptual explorations rather than setting up and resolving conventional narrative tension.
Island, Aldous Huxley, 1962; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, a 1962 novel about individualism in a mental hospital written by Ken Kesey, who was associated with both beatniks and hippies, including the Merry Pranksters; A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, 1962. Explored themes of free will, morality, and the nature of good and evil, as well ...
The Doors of Perception is an autobiographical book written by Aldous Huxley. Published in 1954, it elaborates on his psychedelic experience under the influence of mescaline in May 1953. Huxley recalls the insights he experienced, ranging from the "purely aesthetic" to "sacramental vision", [ 1 ] and reflects on their philosophical and ...
Many of Huxley's contemporaries and critics were disappointed by Huxley's turn to mysticism; [84] Isherwood describes in his diary how he had to explain the criticism to Huxley's widow, Laura: [December 11, 1963, a few weeks after Aldous Huxley’s death] The publisher had suggested John Lehmann should write the biography.
Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. [3] 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 ...
Pala: island utopia in Aldous Huxley's Island; Palanai, an island neighboring Banoi, which is near Papua New Guinea, and the setting for Dead Island: Riptide. Panau: from Just Cause 2; Pangabula Island: an island in the children's television story show Jay Jay the Jet Plane; Pantala: a continent in the book series Wings of Fire by Tui T. Sutherland
On 8 December 1963, his widow Laura wrote a long letter to Julian & Juliette Huxley about the final stages of Aldous's life, including details of his death. She said, inter alia: Aldous was, I think (and certainly I am) appalled at the fact that what he wrote in ISLAND was not taken seriously.
Antic Hay is a novel by Aldous Huxley, published in 1923.The story takes place in London, and gives a satiric depiction [1] of the aimless or self-absorbed cultural elite in the sad and turbulent times following the end of World War I.