Aldous Huxley

(*1894 – †1963)

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Aldous Huxley. English writer, also humanist, pacifist, and satirist. · Biography · Works on Wikisource

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Aldous Huxley. Écrivain britannique, et aussi humaniste, pacifiste et satiriste. · Biographie

Selected works

Novels

• en.ws:Crome Yellow (1921, on Wikisource)
• Antic Hay (1923)
• Those Barren Leaves (1925)
• Point Counter Point (1928)
• Brave New World (1932)
• Eyeless in Gaza (1936)
• After Many a Summer (1939)
• Time Must Have a Stop (1944)
• Ape and Essence (1948)
• The Genius and the Goddess (1955)
• Island (1962) Full text on huxley.net

Short story collections

• Limbo (1920)
• Mortal Coils (1922)
• Little Mexican (US title: Young Archimedes) (1924)
• Two or Three Graces (1926)
• Brief Candles (1930)
• Jacob's Hands: A Fable (discovered 1997) co-written with Christopher Isherwood
• Collected Short Stories (1944)

Poetry collections

• Oxford Poetry (magazine editor) (1916)
• The Burning Wheel (1916)
• Jonah (1917)
• The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems (1918)
• Leda (1920)
• Selected Poems (1925)
• Arabia Infelix and Other Poems (1929)
• The Cicadas and Other Poems (1931)
• Collected Poems (1971, posthumous)

Essay collections

• On the Margin (1923)
• Along the Road (1925)
• Essays New and Old (1926)
• Proper Studies (1927)
• Do What You Will (1929)
• Vulgarity in Literature (1930)
• Music at Night (1931)
• Texts and Pretexts (1932)
• The Olive Tree and other essays (1936)
• Ends and Means (1937)
• Words and their Meanings (1940)
• The Art of Seeing (1942)
• The Perennial Philosophy (1945)
• Science, Liberty and Peace (1946)
• Themes and Variations (1950)
• The Doors of Perception (1954)
• Heaven and Hell (1956)
• Adonis and the Alphabet (US title: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow) (1956)
• Collected Essays (1958)
• Brave New World Revisited (1958) Full text on huxley.net
• Literature and Science (1963)
• Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience 1931–63 (1977)
• The Human Situation: Lectures at Santa Barbara, 1959 (1977)

Screenplays

• Brave New World - screenplay
• Ape and Essence
• Pride and Prejudice (Collaboration. 1940)
• Madame Curie (Collaboration. 1943)
• Jane Eyre (Collaboration with John Houseman. 1944)
• A Woman's Vengeance 1947
• Original screenplay for Disney's animated Alice in Wonderland 1951 (rejected)
• Eyeless in Gaza BBC Mini-series (Collaboration with Robin Chapman. Aired 1971)

Travel books

• Along The Road: Notes and essays of a tourist (1925)
• Jesting Pilate: The Diary of a Journey (1926)
• Beyond the Mexique Bay: A Traveller's Journey (1934)

Children's fiction

• The Crows of Pearblossom (1967)
• The Travails and Tribulations of Geoffrey Peacock (1967)

Drama

• The Discovery (adapted from Francis Sheridan, 1924)
• The World of Light (1931)
• Mortal Coils – A Play. (Stage version of The Gioconda Smile, 1948)
• The Genius and the Goddess (stage version, co-written with Betty Wendel, 1958)
• The Ambassador of Captripedia (1967)
• Now More Than Ever (Huxley's lost play discovered in 2000 in the University of Münster, Germany's Department of English Literature)

Articles written for Vedanta and the West

• Distractions (1941)
• Distractions II (1941)
• Action and Contemplation (1941)
• An Appreciation (1941)
• The Yellow Mustard (1941)
• Lines (1941)
• Some Reflections of the Lord's Prayer (1941)
• Reflections of the Lord's Prayer (1942)
• Reflections of the Lord's Prayer II (1942)
• Words and Reality (1942)
• Readings in Mysticism (1942)
• Man and Reality (1942)
• The Magical and the Spiritual (1942)
• Religion and Time (1943)
• Idolatry (1943)
• Religion and Temperament (1943)
• A Note on the Bhagavatam (1943)
• Seven Meditations (1943)
• On a Sentence From Shakespeare (1944)
• The Minimum Working Hypothesis (1944)
• From a Notebook (1944)
• The Philosophy of the Saints (1944)
• That Art Thou (1945)
• That Art Thou II (1945)
• The Nature of the Ground (1945)
• The Nature of the Ground II (1945)
• God in the World (1945)
• Origins and Consequences of Some Contemporary Thought-Patterns (1946)
• The Sixth Patriarch (1946)
• Some Reflections on Time (1946)
• Reflections on Progress (1947)
• Further Reflections on Progress (1947)
• William Law (1947)
• Notes on Zen (1947)
• Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread (1948)
• A Note on Gandhi (1948)
• Art and Religion (1949)
• Foreword to an Essay on the Indian Philosophy of Peace (1950)
• A Note on Enlightenment (1952)
• Substitutes for Liberation (1952)
• The Desert (1954)
• A Note on Patanjali (1954)
• Who Are We? (1955)
• Foreword to the Supreme Doctrine (1956)
• Knowledge and Understanding (1956)
• The "Inanimate" is Alive (1957)
• Symbol and Immediate Experience (1960)

Audio Recordings on CD

• Knowledge and Understanding (1955)<
• Who Are We? (1955)

Other

• Pacifism and Philosophy (1936)
• An Encyclopedia of Pacifism (editor, 1937)
• Grey Eminence (1941)
• The Devils of Loudun (1953)
• The Politics of Ecology (1962)
• Selected Letters (2007)