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The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell (P.S.)
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Aldous Huxley |
Half an hour after swallowing the drug I became aware of a slow dance of golden lights . . . Among the most profound explorations of the effects of mind-expanding drugs ever written, here are two com… |
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Great Short Stories of the World
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Максим Горький,Colette,Frank O'Connor,Max Aub,Henry Lawson,Albert Camus,Corrado Alvaro,Robert Benchley,H. G. Wells,Isak Dinesen,Ernest Hemingway,Nigel Balchin,Sholem Aleichem,Katherine Anne Porter,Santha Rama Rau,Rabindranath Tagore,Mark Twain,Dorothy Parker,Leo Kennedy,Joseph Conrad,Антон Павлович Чехов,Dorothy L. Sayers,Aldous Huxley,David Herbert Lawrence,Graham Greene,Nadine Gordimer,Oscar Wilde,James Thurber,Alberto Moravia,O. Henry,Rumer Godden,John O'Hara,Truman Capote,Stephen Crane,John Steinbeck,Gabrielle Roy,Unknown,Sally Benson,John Updike,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Doris Lessing,Wallace Stegner,Guy de Maupassat,James Joyce,Luigi Pirandello,Eudora Welty,William Somerset Maugham,Mikhail Zoshchenko,The Editors of The Reader's Digest,Hernando Tellez,Pearl S. Buck,Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes,Ring Lardner,Shirley Jackson,Montague Rhodes James,Paul Horgan,Saki,Thomas Head Raddall,Katherine Mansfield,Bertolt Brecht,Josh Gregory,Irwin Shaw,Marcel Aymé,Jean Stafford,Lilika Nakos,S. J. Perelman,Damon Runyon,Anatole France,Machado de Assis,Jessamyn West,Hjalmar Söderberg |
The leader of the people / John Steinbeck
Mr. Know-all / W. Somerset Maugham
Vanka / Anton Chekhov
The happy prince / Oscar Wilde
The old demon / Pearl S. Buck
The sailor-boy's tale / Isak … |
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Uncertain Endings
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Stanley Ellin,Owen Johnson,Cleveland Moffett,Stanley Ellin,Otto Penzler,Peter Godfrey,Mark Twain,Barry Perowne,Aldous Huxley,O. Henry,Laurie York Erskine,Ray Bradbury,Roald Dahl,Gerald Kersh,Jack Moffitt,Frank R. Stockton,Laurie York Erskine |
A fine showcase for a rare and difficult form of the mystery story; fun to read and made more fun by Penzler's lively introduction.
Contains:
Unreasonable doubt -- Stanley Ellin
A dilemma -- … |
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Great Classic Stories II
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W. S. Gilbert,Mark Twain,Virginia Woolf,Антон Павлович Чехов,Aldous Huxley,David Herbert Lawrence,Edith Wharton,Oscar Wilde,Harriet Beecher Stowe,Nathaniel Hawthorne,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Edgar Allan Poe,Guy de Maupassant,James Joyce,Kate Chopin,Saki,Katherine Mansfield,Susan Glaspell |
[Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W/Young_Goodman_Brown) / by Nathaniel Hawthorne, narrated by John Chancer --
The cask of Amontillado / by Edgar Allan Poe, narrated by Rob… |
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Retour au meilleur des mondes
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Aldous Huxley |
Essai publié en 1951, vingt ans aprés le plus célèbre roman utopique de notre époque. L'écrivain s'y étonne d'avoir prédit certains faits dont il percevait simplement des prémisses hypothétiques. |
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The genius and the goddess
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Aldous Huxley |
The Genius and the Goddess (1955) is a novel by Aldous Huxley. It was published by Chatto & Windus in the UK and by Harper & Row in the US. It is the fictional account of John Rivers, a student physi… |
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The devils of Loudun
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Aldous Huxley |
In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake. He had been found guilty of conspiring with the devil to seduce an entire … |
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Time Must Have a Stop
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Aldous Huxley |
Sebastian Barnack, a handsome English schoolboy, goes to Italy for the summer, and there his real education begins. His teachers are two quite different men: Bruno Rontini, the saintly bookseller, wh… |
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Island
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Aldous Huxley |
The final novel from Aldous Huxley, Island is a provocative counterpoint to his worldwide classic Brave New World, in which a flourishing, ideal society located on a remote Pacific island attracts th… |
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Brave New World
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Aldous Huxley |
Originally published in 1932, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today than ever before. Cloning, feel-good drugs, antiaging programs, and total social control through p… |
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Heerlijke nieuwe wereld
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Aldous Huxley |
In het jaar '632 na Ford' zijn mechanisatie, efficiëntie en productie het hoogste goed, terwijl individualiteit en emotionaliteit verdacht zijn. Door omstandigheden komt de niet-'geciviliseerde' John… |
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