The Doors of Perception, and Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley

The Doors of Perception, and Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley

The acclaimed novelist and critic describes his personal experimentation with the little-known drug mescaline and explores the nature of visionary experience, in an omnibus edition containing the two classic works The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell.

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Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) was an English writer and philosopher. Born in Godalming, Huxley--the grandson of famed zoologist Thomas Henry Huxley and grandnephew of poet and critic Matthew Arnold--was raised in a family with wide-ranging intellectual interests. He attended Eton College as a youth before enrolling at Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied English literature and edited Oxford Poetry. An eye disease Huxley contracted around this time ended his hopes of studying medicine and serving in the Great War, and he instead graduated with a BA in 1916. After a brief stint teaching French at Eton College--among his pupils was Eric Blair, later to write under the pen-name George Orwell--and several years working for Brynner and Mond, a chemical company, Orwell began writing in earnest. The first decade of his career saw him publish four novels, including Crome Yellow (1921) and Point Counter Point (1928). These early works of social satire, inspired in part by his acquaintance with members of the Bloomsbury Group, including Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead, as well as by his friendship with D.H. Lawrence, gave way in the 1930s to more serious works of fiction, including the dystopian classic Brave New World (1932) and Eyeless in Gaza (1936), a novel with pacifist themes. In 1937, Huxley moved with his wife, Maria, and son, Matthew, to Los Angeles, where he would live, apart from a period in Taos, New Mexico, for the rest of his life. Over the next three decades, Huxley continued to publish award-winning works of fiction, devoted himself to Vedantism, and wrote works on mysticism, Eastern and Western philosophies, and the use of psychedelic drugs.

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ISBN 13	9780060595180
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Title	The Doors of Perception, and Heaven and Hell
Author	Aldous Huxley
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Year published	2004-05-04
Number of pages	192
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