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Brave New World
Aldous Huxley was born on 26 July 1894 near Godalming, Surrey. He began writing poetry and short stories in his early 20s, but it was his first novel, Crome Yellow (1921), which established his literary reputation. This was swiftly followed by Antic Hay (1923), Those Barren Leaves (1925) and Point Counter Point (1928) ¿ bright, brilliant satires in which Huxley wittily but ruthlessly passed judgement on the shortcomings of contemporary society. For most of the 1920s Huxley lived in Italy and an account of his experiences there can be found in Along the Road (1925). The great novels of ideas, including his most famous work Brave New World (published in 1932 this warned against the dehumanising aspects of scientific and material 'progress') and the pacifist novel Eyeless in Gaza (1936) were accompanied by a series of wise and brilliant essays, collected in volume form under titles such as Music at Night (1931) and Ends and Means (1937). In 1937, at the height of his fame, Huxley left Europe to live in California, working for a time as a screenwriter in Hollywood. As the West braced itself for war, Huxley came increasingly to believe that the key to solving the world's problems lay in changing the individual through mystical enlightenment. The exploration of the inner life through mysticism and hallucinogenic drugs was to dominate his work for the rest of his life. His beliefs found expression in both fiction (Time Must Have a Stop,1944, and Island, 1962) and non-fiction (The Perennial Philosophy, 1945; Grey Eminence, 1941; and the account of his first mescalin experience, The Doors of Perception, 1954. Huxley died in California on 22 November 1963.
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Brave New World
Vintage Quarterbound ClassicsAldous Huxley was born on 26 July 1894 near Godalming, Surrey. He began writing poetry and short stories in his early 20s, but it was his first novel, Crome Yellow (1921), which established his literary reputation. This was swiftly followed by Antic Hay (1923), Those Barren Leaves (1925) and Point Counter Point (1928) – bright, brilliant satires in which Huxley wittily but ruthlessly passed judgement on the shortcomings of contemporary society. For most of the 1920s Huxley lived in Italy and an account of his experiences there can be found in Along the Road (1925). The great novels of ideas, including his most famous work Brave New World (published in 1932, this warned against the dehumanising aspects of scientific and material 'progress') and the pacifist novel Eyeless in Gaza (1936) were accompanied by a series of wise and brilliant essays, collected in volume form under titles such as Music at Night (1931) and Ends and Means (1937). In 1937, at the height of his fame, Huxley left Europe to live in California, working for a time as a screenwriter in Hollywood. As the West braced itself for war, Huxley came increasingly to believe that the key to solving the world's problems lay in changing the individual through mystical enlightenment. The exploration of the inner life through mysticism and hallucinogenic drugs was to dominate his work for the rest of his life. His beliefs found expression in both fiction (Time Must Have a Stop,1944, and Island, 1962) and non-fiction (The Perennial Philosophy, 1945; Grey Eminence, 1941; and the account of his first mescaline experience, The Doors of Perception, 1954). Huxley died in California on 22 November 1963.
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Antic Hay
Theodore Gumbril Junior is fed up with his job as a teacher, and tries a new tack as an inventor of pneumatic trousers. The development and marketing of these is set against his attempts to find love, and the backdrop of his friends' and acquaintances' similar quest for meaning in what seems to them a meaningless world.Aldous Huxley, although primarily known these days for his seminal work Brave New World, gained fame in the 1920s as a writer of social satires such as this, his second novel. Condemned at the time for its frank treatment of sexuality and adultery-it was even banned in Australia-the book's characters' comic lack of stability following the society-wide alignment of the Great War still resonates today.
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Those Barren Leaves
Mrs. Aldwinkle, an English aristocrat of a certain age, has purchased a mansion in the Italian countryside. She wishes to bring a salon of intellectual luminaries into her orbit, and to that end she invites a strange cast of characters to spend time with her in her palazzo: Irene, her young niece; Ms. Thriplow, a governess-turned-novelist; Mr. Calamy, a handsome young man of great privilege and even greater ennui; Mr. Cardan, a worldly gentleman whose main talent seems to be the enjoyment of life; Hovenden, a young motorcar-obsessed lord with a speech impediment; and Mr. Falx, a socialist leader. To this unlikely cast is soon added Mr. Chelifer, an author with an especially florid, overwrought style that is wasted on his day job as editor of The Rabbit Fancier's Gazette, and the Elvers, a scheming brother who is the guardian of his mentally-challenged sister.As this unlikely group mingles, they discuss a great many grand topics: love, art, language, life, culture. Yet very early on the reader comes to realize that behind the pompousness of their elaborate discussions lies nothing but vacuity-these characters are a satire of the self-important intellectuals of Huxley's era.His skewering of their intellectual barrenness continues as the group moves on to a trip around the surrounding country, in a satire of the Grand Tour tradition. The party brings their English snobbery out in full force as they traipse around Rome, sure of nothing else except in their belief that Italy is culturally superior simply because it's Italy.As the vacation winds down, we're left with a biting lampoon of the elites who suppose themselves to be at the height of art and culture-the kinds of personalities that arise in every generation, sure of their own greatness but unable to actually contribute anything to the world of art and culture that they feel is so important.
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Il mondo nuovo-Ritorno al mondo nuovo
In un futuro in cui la felicità è stata programmata e il dolore cancellato, gli esseri umani non nascono più ma vengono prodotti in serie, educati a desiderare ciò che li mantiene docili. Sotto il regno di Ford, ogni emozione autentica è bandita, ogni legame profondo è sospetto: sostituita dal benessere, la libertà è una parola vuota e la felicità l'effetto fugace della chimica. Eppure, sotto la superficie levigata e anestetizzante di un piacere effimero, sopravvive la memoria di ciò che è stato, il linguaggio perduto di Shakespeare, l'ultima eco dell'anima umana. Con Il mondo nuovo, scritto mentre in Europa si andavano affermando i fascismi, Aldous Huxley costruisce una delle più inquietanti distopie del Novecento che, indagando il rapporto tra scienza, masse ed élite al potere, tra felicità e verità, artificio e umanità, offre una visione profetica del prezzo che si paga quando il progresso diventa ideologia. Al romanzo e alla raccolta di saggi Ritorno al mondo nuovo, in cui l'autore rilegge le proprie intuizioni alla luce della storia e delle derive della modernità, la nuova traduzione di Isabella C. Blum restituisce con rigore e sensibilità la voce limpida e inquieta di Huxley, in una complessa tessitura di rimandi e citazioni, tra ironia e tragedia, lucidità filosofica e visione poetica del destino umano. Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.
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Crome Yellow
Denis, a young writer and poet, travels to an English countryside manor to spend the summer alongside a cast of outlandish leisure class intellectuals. The younger guests of the manor grapple with navigating love and sex within a post-Victorian society. Older guests and inhabitants obsess over trivialities from their vast libraries, eager to give a show of their knowledge to each other. The novel uses these interactions to paint a scathing representation of their insecurities and world views.Crome Yellow is Aldous Huxley's first published novel. His inspiration for many of the characters came from his time spent at Garsington Manor, a haven for many writers and poets of the time.
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Brave New World: A Graphic Novel
Touching on themes of control, humanity, technology, and influence, Aldous Huxley's enduring classic is a reflection and a warning of the age in which it was written, yet remains frighteningly relevant today.With its surreal imagery and otherworldly backdrop, Brave New World adapts beautifully to the graphic novel form.
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Brave New World
Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free.
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Brave New World
Brave New World predicts - with eerie clarity - a terrifying vision of the future.
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Schöne Neue Welt
Ein Klassiker der Weltliteratur in Neuübersetzung1932 erschien eines der größten utopischen Bücher des 20. Jahrhunderts: ein heimtückisch verführerischer Aufriss unserer Zukunft, in der das Glück verabreicht wird wie eine Droge. Sex und Konsum fegen alle Bedenken hinweg und Reproduktionsfabriken haben das Fortpflanzungsproblem gelöst. Es ist die beste aller Welten - bis einer hinter die Kulissen schaut und einen Abgrund aus Arroganz und Bosheit entdeckt.In der hoch gelobten Neuübersetzung von Uda Strätling erhält das prophetische Buch, dessen Aktualität uns jeden Tag aufs Neue bewiesen wird, seine sprachliche zeitgemäße Gestalt.
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Schöne Neue Welt
Ein Meisterwerk neu in der Sprache unserer Zeit1932 erschien eines der größten utopischen Bücher des 20. Jahrhunderts: ein heimtückisch verführerischer Aufriss unserer Zukunft, in der das Glück verabreicht wird wie eine Droge. Sex und Konsum fegen alle Bedenken hinweg und Reproduktionsfabriken haben das Fortpflanzungsproblem gelöst. Es ist die beste aller Welten - bis einer hinter die Kulissen schaut und einen Abgrund aus Arroganz und Bosheit entdeckt.Endlich erscheint die längst fällige Neuübersetzung von Uda Strätling. Das prophetische Buch, dessen Aktualität jeden Tag aufs Neue bewiesen wird, erhält eine sprachlich zeitgemäße Gestalt.
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Schöne neue Welt
Im Jahre 632 nach Ford ist die Welt ein perfekter Ort: Kriminalität und Armut gehören der Vergangenheit an. Babys werden in Flaschen gezüchtet und so konditioniert, dass sie später, betäubt durch die Glücksdroge Soma, zufrieden den ihnen zugedachten Platz in der Gesellschaft einnehmen. Doch dann betritt ein sogenannter Wilder die 'Schöne neue Welt'. Der faszinierende Fremde, der über Gefühle und Freiheit spricht, wird wie ein Star gefeiert - bis er zur Bedrohung für die selbsternannte Zivilisation wird. Die brillante Hörspielinszenierung des rbb veranschaulicht auf einzigartige Weise die Aktualität von Huxleys weltbekanntem Zukunftsroman.Hörspiel mit Gerd Wameling2 CDs | ca. 1 h 57 min
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