A ilha, 1962, é uma obra-prima do talento profético de Huxley, um dos maiores escritores do Séc. XX. Vindo de um mundo dominado pela violência, totalitarismo e massificação, o cético jornalista Will Farnaby descobre Pala, uma ilha paradisíaca na Indonésia. Ali floresce uma sociedade auto-suficiente que, baseada no perfeito equilíbrio entre a ciência e espiritualismo, valoriza a liberdade e a realização plena das potencialidades de seus habitantes. No entanto, a cobiça dos países vizinhos — que desejam explorar as riquezas naturais do lugar — condena Pala ao desaparecimento

Brave New World Revisited (Harper & Row, 1958), written by Huxley almost thirty years after Brave New World, was a non-fiction work in which Huxley considered whether the world had moved toward or away from his vision of the future from the 1930s. He believed when he wrote the original novel that it was a reasonable guess as to where the world might go in the future but in Brave New World Revisited he concluded that the world was becoming much more like Brave New World much faster than he thought

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 Crome. 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. Aldous Huxley’s first novel, Crome Yellow, was published in 1921, and, as a comedy of manners and ideas, its relatively realistic setting and format may come as a surprise to fans of his later works such as Point Counter Point and Brave New World. Some who know only Brave New World may not know that as a 16-year-old planning to enter medicine, Aldous Huxley was stricken by a serious eye disease which left him temporarily blind, and which derailed what certainly would have been a prominent career as a physician or scientist. Crome Yellow has often been called “witty,” as well as “talky,” and it certainly owes as much to Vanity Fair as it may, surprisingly to some, owe to Tristram Shandy, although one might think that characters such as Mr. Barbecue-Smith and his remarkable writing theories could have some literary antecedents in Lawrence Sterne. Lambasting the post-Victorian standards of morality, Crome Yellow is a witty masterpiece that, in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s words, “is too irnonic to be called satire and too scornful to be called irony.”

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 eyes everything, from the flowers in a vase to the creases in his trousers, was transformed. Huxley described his experience with breathtaking immediacy in The Doors of Perception. In its sequel Heaven and Hell, he goes on to explore the history and nature of mysticism. Focusing on how science, art, religion, literature, and psychoactive drugs can expand the everyday view of reality and offer a more profound grasp of the human experience.\n\nHuxley’s essays The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell ushered in a whole new generation of counter-culture icons such as Jackson Pollock, John Cage, Timothy Leary and Jim Morrison

Esta visionaria novela publicada por primera vez en 1962 se convierte en nuestros días en todo un decálogo de la convivencia. En ella nos muestra a una pequeña comunidad cuyos principios básicos son el conocimiento profundo de uno mismo, el respeto por cada uno de sus miembros y el progreso común en beneficio de todos. La trama se desarrolla en una imaginaria isla a la que llega el periodista inglés Will Farnaby. Las costumbres, los ritos y la actitud ante la vida de sus habitantes impactarán en él y le llevarán a cuestionarse el modo de vida occidental del que proviene. Este libro fue considerado por los coetános de Aldous Huxley como «ciencia ficción», sin embargo, a la vista del mundo en el que hoy vivimos, se convierte en la alternativa más inteligente para el futuro de la humanidad

Aldous Huxley’s acclaimed and gripping account of one of the strangest occurrences in history In 1643 an entire convent in the small French village of Loudun was apparently possessed by the devil. After a sensational and celebrated trial, the convent’s charismatic priest Urban Grandier—accused of spiritually and sexually seducing the nuns in his charge—was convicted of being in league with Satan. Then he was burned at the stake for witchcraft. In this classic work by the legendary Aldous Huxley—a remarkable true story of religious and sexual obsession considered by many to be his nonfiction masterpiece—a compelling historical event is clarified and brought to vivid life. “Huxley has reconstructed with skill, learning and horror one of the most appalling incidents in the history of witch-hunting during its seventeenth-century heyday. The Devils of Loudun is fascinating, erudite, and instinct with intellectual vitality.” “Huxley’s analysis of motive, his exposition of the unconscious causes of behaviour, his exposure of the perversions to which religious emotion is subject, his discursions on the witch cult, on mass hysteria, on sexual eccentricity have the brilliance that all his writing has had from the very beginning.” “One of Huxley’s best books.” “His masterpiece, and perhaps the most enjoyable book about spirituality ever written. In telling the grotesque, bawdy and true story of a 17th-century convent of cloistered French nuns who contrived to have a priest they never met burned alive… Huxley painlessly conveys a wealth of information about mysticism and the unconscious.”

"Un mundo feliz", escrito en 1932, describe una democracia que es, al mismo tiempo, una dictadura perfecta; una cárcel sin muros en la cual los prisioneros no soñarían con evadirse. Un sistema de esclavitud donde, gracias al sistema de consumo y el entretenimiento, los esclavos amarían su servidumbre. Para el logro de este objetivo, Huxley imagina una sociedad que utiliza todos los medios de la ciencia y la técnica – incluidas las drogas – para el condicionamiento y el control de los individuos. En ese mundo, todos los niños son concebidos en probetas y están genéticamente condicionados para pertenecer a una de las 5 categorías de población. De la más inteligente a la más estúpida: los Alpha (la elite), los Betas (los ejecutantes), los Gammas (los empleados subalternos), los Deltas y los Epsilones (destinados a trabajos arduos). Todos son felices, porque su estilo de vida es totalmente acorde con sus necesidades e intereses. Los descontentos con el sistema (los menos) son apartados de la sociedad ideal y confinados en colonias especiales donde se rodean de otras personas con similares "desviaciones", alcanzando también la felicidad. Uno de los aspectos más relevantes de la historia es que los ciudadanos de ese mundo ideal dependen casi servilmente de una droga sintética, el Soma, para garantizar su felicidad. Algo que se relaciona bastante directamente con las experiencias personales del propio Huxley con distintas drogas. La mayor parte de los críticos, incluido el propio Huxley, ha comparado esta novela con "1984", de George Orwell. Ambas obras constituyen un ejercicio de proyección futurística. La diferencia, sin embargo, está en lo referente a los modelos de control: el mundo de Orwell está basado en la fuerza y la coerción y el de Huxley en el ocio y la diversión. Mientras Orwell hace una proyección del comunismo soviético de su época, Huxley proyecta hasta sus últimas consecuencias la sociedad liberalcapitalista en la que le tocó vivir