Those Barren Leaves

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9791041807239

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Those Barren Leaves by Aldous Huxley Pdf

We rely on your support to help us keep producing beautiful, free, and unrestricted editions of literature for the digital age. Will you support our efforts with a donation? 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.

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Random House
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781407065670

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Those Barren Leaves by Aldous Huxley Pdf

In a renovated Italian palace set above the blue of the sea, the Junoesque figure of Mrs Aldwinkle moves among her guests. These include a poet who earns his living editing The Rabbit Fancier's Gazette; a popular novelist who records every detail of her affair with another guest as future literary material; an aging philosopher who pursues a wealthy yet mentally-disabled heiress and a pair of na-ve and charming young lovers. Deliciously satirical, Those Barren Leaves bites the hands of those who dare to posture or feign sophistication and is as comically fresh today as when it was first published.

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780795311253

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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Pdf

This classic novel of a perfectly engineered society is “one of the most prophetic dystopian works of the twentieth century” (The Wall Street Journal). Half a millennium from now, in the World State, the watchword is that every one belongs to every one else. No matter what class of human you are bred to be—from the intellectual Alphas to the Epsilons who provide the manual labor—you are a part of the efficient, well-oiled whole. You are nourished, secure, and blissfully serene thanks to the freely distributed drug called soma. And while sex is strongly encouraged, the old way of procreation is forbidden, eliminating even the pains of childbirth. But when a man and woman journey beyond these confines to where the “savages” reside, and bring back two outsiders, the cracks begin to show. Named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the twentieth century by the Modern Library, Brave New World is one of the first truly dystopian novels. Influenced by the historic events of Huxley’s era yet as relevant today as ever, it is a remarkable depiction of the conflict between progress and the human spirit. “Chilling. . . . That he gave us the dark side of genetic engineering in 1932 is amazing.” —Providence Journal-Bulletin “It is a frightening experience, indeed, to discover how much of his satirical prediction of a distant future became reality in so short a time.” —The New York Times Book Review

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Artists and patrons
ISBN : IND:32000009144157

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Those Barren Leaves by Aldous Huxley Pdf

Author : Aldous Leonard Huxley
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066338036674

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Those Barren Leaves by Aldous Leonard Huxley Pdf

Aldous Huxley's biting satire, 'Those Barren Leaves', exposes the hollow façades of the self-proclaimed cultural elites. Within the opulent halls of an Italian palace, Mrs. Aldwinkle and her entourage assemble to bask in the imagined grandeur of the Renaissance. Yet, beneath their veneer of sophistication, they are revealed as mere shadows of substance, their lives devoid of true meaning or depth. With sharp wit and piercing insight, Huxley dissects the pretensions of a society that masks emptiness with pretentiousness, inviting readers to question the authenticity of those who claim a place among the cultural elite.

Author : David A. Robertson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780735266117

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The Barren Grounds by David A. Robertson Pdf

Narnia meets traditional Indigenous stories of the sky and constellations in an epic middle grade fantasy series from award-winning author David Robertson. Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brought together in a foster home in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They each feel disconnected, from their culture and each other, and struggle to fit in at school and at their new home -- until they find a secret place, walled off in an unfinished attic bedroom. A portal opens to another reality, Askí, bringing them onto frozen, barren grounds, where they meet Ochek (Fisher). The only hunter supporting his starving community, Misewa, Ochek welcomes the human children, teaching them traditional ways to survive. But as the need for food becomes desperate, they embark on a dangerous mission. Accompanied by Arik, a sassy Squirrel they catch stealing from the trapline, they try to save Misewa before the icy grip of winter freezes everything -- including them.

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Pub
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0786702648

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Eyeless in Gaza by Aldous Huxley Pdf

Aldous Huxley- a major figure of the literary and intellectual history of this century- dramatizes here one man's disillusionment threatening to plunge the world into a new morass.

Author : Aldous Leonard Huxley
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547106821

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The Art of Seeing by Aldous Leonard Huxley Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Art of Seeing" by Aldous Leonard Huxley. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Edith Nesbit
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9788026872450

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The Magic City (Illustrated) by Edith Nesbit Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Magic City (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. After Philip's older sister and sole family member Helen marries, he goes off to live with his new step sister Lucy. He has trouble adjusting at first, thrown into a world different from his previous life and abandoned by his sister while she is on her honeymoon. To entertain himself he builds a giant model city from things around the house: game pieces, books, blocks, bowls, etc. Then through some magic he finds himself inside the city, and it is alive with the people he has populated it with. Edith Nesbit (1858-1924) was the author of world famous books for children - the tales of fantastical adventures, journeys back in time and travel to magical worlds.

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literature and science
ISBN : 0918024854

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Literature and Science by Aldous Huxley Pdf

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781513284606

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The Burning Wheel by Aldous Huxley Pdf

The Burning Wheel (1916) is a collection of poems by English author Aldous Huxley. Published when the poet was only twenty-two, The Burning Wheel captures the mind of an artist at its earliest fertile stage, enthralled with a world either blooming with change or wilting with all-out war. Although Huxley is known foremost as a novelist, his poetry exhibits a mastery of language and an uncommon sense of the music inherent to words. “The Burning Wheel” opens the collection with a kaleidoscopic vision of life and creation, illuminating the poet’s debt to the French Symbolists. “Weary of its own turning,” the burning wheel slows for a moment’s rest. This wheel, both machine and pure, wild flame, is the poet compelled to create, the mind that “[w]akes from the sleep of its quiet brightness / And burns with a darkening passion and pain.” In “Quotidian Vision,” Huxley returns to earth to remark: “There is a sadness in the street / And sullenly the folk I meet / Droop their heads as they walk along.” In these simple, rhyming couplets, the poet channels the verse and vision of William Blake to see, despite the “mist of cold and muffling grey,” a “dead world move for him once more / With beauty for its living core.” The Burning Wheel is a compelling collection from an artist whose poetry is no less remarkable for having gone mostly unnoticed. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Aldous Huxley’s The Burning Wheel is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers.

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798598003824

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Those Barren Leaves Annotated by Aldous Huxley Pdf

Those Barren Leaves is a satirical novel by Aldous Huxley, published in 1925. The title comes from William Wordsworth's poem Inverted Tables, which ends with the words: Enough Science and Art; Close these barren leaves; Come out and bring with you a heart That watches and accepts.

Author : Aldous Leonard Huxley
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547106753

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The Olive Tree and other essays by Aldous Leonard Huxley Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Olive Tree and other essays" by Aldous Leonard Huxley. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Farley Mowat
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781551991856

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Lost in the Barrens by Farley Mowat Pdf

Awasin, a Cree Indian boy, and Jamie, a Canadian orphan living with his uncle, the trapper Angus Macnair, are enchanted by the magic of the great Arctic wastes. They set out on an adventure that proves longer and more dangerous than they could have imagined. Drawing on his knowledge of the ways of the wilderness and the implacable northern elements, Farley Mowat has created a memorable tale of daring and adventure. When first published in 1956, Lost in the Barrens won the Governor-General’s Award for Juvenile Literature, the Book-of-the-Year Medal of the Canadian Association of Children’s Librarians and the Boys’ Club of America Junior Book Award.

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551997568

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The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley Pdf

Two of the most famous pieces of non-fiction by Aldous Huxley (best known for Brave New World), The Doors of Perception details his experiences on the mind-altering drug mescaline, while Heaven and Hell details the relationships between mysticism, art, and sense perception that these experiences helped Huxley to explore and develop. He analogizes the mental states achievable through the use of mind-altering substances to very forms of religious self-flagellation, and also theorizes that they might be used as a form of treatment for psychological ailments. The two works have been significant influences on thinkers in this field, as well as writers, theologians, and philosophers. Random House of Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in ebook form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.