Robert Aldous (120 results)

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. These first two volumes of a projected five, in preparation for several years, begin a major publishing venture, collecting the complete essays of one of the giants of modern English prose and of social commentary in our time. The first two volumes span the most productive period of Huxley's career. Volume I begins with his essays for Gilbert Murray's Athenaeum and his music essays for the New Westminster Gazette. Volume I continues through the 1920s and includes his controversial essays on India and the empire in Jesting Pilate. The essays of both volumes range from nuanced assessments of art and architecture to political analyses, history, science, religion, and art, and a newly discovered series on music. Wide-ranging, allusive, and witty, they are informed by the probing skepticism of a highly educated and ironically incisive member of the English upper middle class. Huxley's fascination with the codes and conventions of European culture, his growing apprehensions about the menacing collapse of the European political order, and his awareness of the impact of science and technology on the post-Versailles world of England, France, Germany, and the United States form the basis for his critique. His subjects overlap with the satirical novels he wrote during the period between the wars, culminating in Point Counter Point and Brave New World. At their best, these essays stand among the finest examples of the genre in modern literature.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. These first two volumes of a projected five, in preparation for several years, begin a major publishing venture, collecting the complete essays of one of the giants of modern English prose and of social commentary in our time. The first two volumes span the most productive period of Huxley's career. Volume I begins with his essays for Gilbert Murray's Athenaeum and his music essays for the New Westminster Gazette. Volume I continues through the 1920s and includes his controversial essays on India and the empire in Jesting Pilate. The essays of both volumes range from nuanced assessments of art and architecture to political analyses, history, science, religion, and art, and a newly discovered series on music. Wide-ranging, allusive, and witty, they are informed by the probing skepticism of a highly educated and ironically incisive member of the English upper middle class. Huxley's fascination with the codes and conventions of European culture, his growing apprehensions about the menacing collapse of the European political order, and his awareness of the impact of science and technology on the post-Versailles world of England, France, Germany, and the United States form the basis for his critique. His subjects overlap with the satirical novels he wrote during the period between the wars, culminating in Point Counter Point and Brave New World. At their best, these essays stand among the finest examples of the genre in modern literature.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Brave New World (NEW LONGMAN LITERATURE 14-18) This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .…

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

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Hardback. Condition: Good. This third volume of a projected six reinforces Huxley s stature as one of the most acute and informed observers of the social and ideological trends of the years between the world wars. It contains the important collection of essays Music at Night as well as the majority of Huxley s journalistic writing for the Hearst newspapers in the United States and for a variety of British periodicals such as Nash s Pall Mall Magazine, the Evening Standard, and Time and Tide. Much of the attraction of the Hearst essays lies in their vivid period detail: references to the raucous voices of Nazi broadcasters, speeches by Roosevelt and Stalin, Soviet five-year plans, and the effects of the Great Depression combine to provide a rich context for Huxley s increasingly active role in organized pacifism and his sense of standing on the threshold of a new era. The essays of Music at Night define this trend as the New Romanticism, a celebration of Enlightenment modernity and an excessive faith in instrumental reason and applied science. Huxley was both intrigued by and suspicious of state planning and centralized bureaucratic authority. The essays in Volume I (and the volume to follow) register his growing ambivalence about the role of technocracy and science in an era of experimentation in the concentration of executive and legislative power. At their best, Huxley s essays stand among the finest examples of the genre in modern literature. He was among the few writers who.played with ideas so freely, so gaily, with such virtuosity, that the responsive reader.was dazzled and excited. Isaiah Berlin.…

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Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Softcover. A Norton Critical Edition. xiv, 401 pp. Softcover. LCC: 7728074 Good condition; on covers: touches of wear, and previous owner's signature on front; some pen underlining.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Volume 2 only. Edited with Commentary by Baker, S. Robert and Sexton, James. No markings.

Condition: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. Near fine (slight wear to edges of covers and spine) in wrappers. Contributions by all authors listed.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Near fine (slight wear to edges of covers and spine) in wrappers. Contributions by all authors listed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Previous owner date on front end paper otherwise a very clean copy free of any internal markings.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Previous owner put a few penciled check marks here and there otherwise a very clean copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Clean and well preserved copy. Binding is firm.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. Near fine in similar dust jacket. Price intact. Tight, clean copy. Gift quality.(Y).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 96 pages. Illustrated. Aldous Huxley "Usually Destroyed" / Evelyn Waugh "An Open Letter To The Hon. Mrs Peter Rodd (Nancy Mitford)" / Herbert Luthy "'Algeria Does Not Exist'" / Isaiah Berlin "A Marvellous Decade (III)" / Elizabeth Hardwick "Portrait Of A New York Lady" / Stephen Spender "Notes From A Diary" Robert Jungle "Letter From Geneva" / Dwight Macdonald "Letter from Italy".…

Condition: New. [Aldous Huxley ] La moderna etnofarmacología y la psicología de los estados modificados de consciencia deben mucho a estos pioneros de las dos disciplinas. Probablemente, son los tres personajes que más han influido en las investigaciones posteriores dirigidas a la comprensión de la experiencia visionaria. Era la época en que el ostracismo para la mescalina, la LSD o los hongos psicoactivos estaba en pañales. Todavía se podía hablar de estas substancias y utilizarlas con plena libertad de movimiento y de consciencia. *** Nota: Los envíos a España peninsular, Baleares y Canarias se realizan a través de mensajería urgente. No aceptamos pedidos con destino a Ceuta y Melilla.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 72 pages Lawrence Durrell "Studies In Genius: VI-Groddeck" / Tom Hopkinson "Encounter At Dusk" / Bernard Denvir "Andre Bauchant" / Augustus John "Fragments Of An Autobiography:XVII" / Robert Hamilton "The Challenge Of Aldous Huxley: 'The Perennial Philosophy" / Louis Macniece (poetry). …

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Index only for the tenth anniversary for the Winter of the 1958 edition. Stapled wrappers. 45pp. Spine lightly toned, else fine.

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Published In 1998 : 1st. Edition : 1st. Printing : Full Printing Numbers Listed , 1 - 9 : Macmillan Children's Books : Small Amount Of Faint Face Rubbing : Otherwise , As New Throughout : Crisp & Tight , With No Inscriptions : Good Solid Binding With Bright Clear Text & Illustrations : Overall , A Very Nice Book .…