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Aldous Huxley
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID BRADSHAW The dilettantes who frequent Lady Tantamount’s society parties are determined to push forward the moral frontiers of the age. As they all engage in…
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Denis Stone, a naive young poet, is invited to stay at Crome, a country house renowned for its gatherings of ‘bright young things’. His hosts, Henry Wimbush and his exotic…
When Theodore Gumbril hits upon the notion of designing a type of pneumatic trouser to ease the discomfort of a sedentary life, he decides the time has come to leave…
A gripping biography by the author of Brave New World The life of Father Joseph, Cardinal Richelieu’s aide, was a shocking paradox. After spending his days directing operations on the…
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A gripping biography by the author of Brave New World In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt at…
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID BRADSHAW Anthony Beavis is a man inclined to recoil from life. Realising that his determined detachment from the world has been motivated not by intellectual…
Brave New World predicts - with eerie clarity - a terrifying vision of the future.
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In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his…
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In his 1932 classic dystopian novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley depicted a future society in thrall to science and regulated by sophisticated methods of social control.
For over a hundred years the Pacific island of Pala has been the scene of a unique experiment in civilisation.
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A dystopian classic In February 2108, the New Zealand Rediscovery Expedition reaches California at last. The expedition expects to find physical destruction but they are quite unprepared for the moral…
