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Those Barren Leaves

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (418 download)

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Download or read book Those Barren Leaves written by Aldous Huxley and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Those Barren Leaves

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Cosimo Classics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Those Barren Leaves written by Aldous Huxley and published by Cosimo Classics. This book was released on 1925 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Money brings no satisfaction if one has to work for it; for if one works for it one has no time to spend it." -Aldous Huxley, Those Barren Leaves (1925) Those Barren Leaves (1925) is a satirical novel by Aldous Huxley, the title of which comes from William Wordworth's poem The Tables Turned (1798): "Enough of Science and of Art; Close up those barren leaves; Come forth, and bring with you a heart; That watches and receives." The plot centers on protagonist Mrs. Aldwinkle, who invites guests to a Renaissance-like soiree, only to have her desire for the perfect event dashed. Reminiscent of Huxley's Crome Yellow (1921, also available from Cosimo Classics), the author's skewering of the superficial and pretentious is witty and engaging no matter the time period.

Those Barren Leaves

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781721083268
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Those Barren Leaves written by Aldous Huxley and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-13 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those Barren Leaves by Aldous Huxley Huxley spares no one in his ironic, piercing portrayal of a group gathered in an Italian palace by the socially ambitious and self-professed lover of art, Mrs. Aldwinkle. Here, Mrs. Aldwinkle yearns to recapture the glories of the Italian Renaissance, but her guests ultimately fail to fulfill her naive expectations. Among her entourage are: a suffering poet and reluctant editor of the "Rabbit Fanciers' Gazette" who silently bears the widowed Mrs. Aldwinkle's desperate advances; a popular novelist who records every detail of her affair with another guest, the amorous Calamy, for future literary endeavors; and an aging sensualist philosopher who pursues a wealthy yet mentally-disabled heiress. Stripping the houseguests of their pretensions, Huxley reveals the superficiality of the cultural elite. 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 first published. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Eyeless in Gaza

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780786702640
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Eyeless in Gaza written by Aldous Huxley and published by Carroll & Graf Pub. This book was released on 1995 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

ON A MARGIN

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ON A MARGIN written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Those Barren Leaves

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140008326
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Those Barren Leaves written by Aldous Huxley and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Art of Seeing

Author : Aldous Leonard Huxley
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Seeing written by Aldous Leonard Huxley and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Those Barren Leaves

Author : Aldous Leonard Huxley,
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781983836046
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Those Barren Leaves written by Aldous Leonard Huxley, and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aldous Huxley spares no one in his ironic, piercing portrayal of a group gathered in an Italian palace by the socially ambitious and self-professed lover of art, Mrs. Aldwinkle. Here, Mrs. Aldwinkle yearns to recapture the glories of the Italian Renaissance, but her guests ultimately fail to fulfill her naive expectations. Among her entourage are: a suffering poet and reluctant editor of the "Rabbit Fanciers' Gazette" who silently bears the widowed Mrs. Aldwinkle's desperate advances; a popular novelist who records every detail of her affair with another guest, the amorous Calamy, for future literary endeavors; and an aging sensualist philosopher who pursues a wealthy yet mentally-disabled heiress. Stripping the houseguests of their pretensions, Huxley reveals the superficiality of the cultural elite. 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 first published

Ape and Essence

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee
ISBN 13 : 146174136X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Ape and Essence written by Aldous Huxley and published by Ivan R. Dee. This book was released on 1992-08-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Aldous Huxley's Brave New World first appeared in 1932, it presented in terms of purest fantasy a society bent on self-destruction. Few of its outraged critics anticipated the onset of another world war with its Holocaust and atomic ruin. In 1948, seeing that the probable shape of his anti-utopia had been altered inevitably by the facts of history, Huxley wrote Ape and Essence. In this savage novel, using the form of a film scenario, he transports us to the year 2108. The setting is Los Angeles where a "rediscovery expedition" from New Zealand is trying to make sense of what is left. From chief botanist Alfred Poole we learn, to our dismay, about the twenty-second-century way of life. "It was inevitable that Mr. Huxley should have written this book: one could almost have seen it since Hiroshima is the necessary sequel to Brave New World."—Alfred Kazin. "The book has a certain awesome impressiveness; its sheer intractable bitterness cannot but affect the reader."—Time.

The Burning Wheel

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Burning Wheel written by Aldous Huxley and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1916 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wearied of its own turning, Distressed with its own busy restlessness, Yearning to draw the circumferent pain- The rim that is dizzy with speed- To the motionless centre, there to rest, The wheel must strain through agony On agony contracting, returning Into the core of steel. And at last the wheel has rest, is still, Shrunk to an adamant core: Fulfilling its will in fixity. But the yearning atoms, as they grind Closer and closer, more and more Fiercely together, beget A flaming fire upward leaping, Billowing out in a burning, Passionate, fierce desire to find The infinite calm of the mother's breast...

Those Barren Leaves Annotated

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Those Barren Leaves Annotated written by Aldous Huxley and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-20 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Magic City (Illustrated)

Author : Edith Nesbit
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8026872452
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book The Magic City (Illustrated) written by Edith Nesbit and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2016-12-25 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Barren Grounds

Author : David A. Robertson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735266115
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book The Barren Grounds written by David A. Robertson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Literature and Science

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780918024855
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Literature and Science written by Aldous Huxley and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mortal Coils

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : London : Chatto & Windus
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Mortal Coils written by Aldous Huxley and published by London : Chatto & Windus. This book was released on 1925 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Olive Tree and other essays

Author : Aldous Leonard Huxley
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Olive Tree and other essays written by Aldous Leonard Huxley and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Those Barren Leaves

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Those Barren Leaves written by Aldous Huxley and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: