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Mit «Along the Road» lernen wir Aldous Huxley, den Autor der visionären Dystopie «Schöne neue Welt», von einer bisher kaum bekannten Seite kennen: als großen Reiseschriftsteller. Huxley führt uns durch das Europa der Zwanziger, eine Welt im Umbruch, in der eine neue Mobilität auf alte Formen des Reisens prallt. Auch Huxley erliegt dem Reiz der Geschwindigkeit, wenn er mit seinem 10-PS-Citroën in Oberitalien an kunstbeflissenen deutschen Wandervögeln vorbeirauscht. Zugleich folgen wir einem humorvollen Flaneur, der im Zugabteil dritter Klasse den Geschichten der Menschen lauscht,...

Now more than ever: Aldous Huxley's enduring "masterpiece ... one of the most prophetic dystopian works of the 20th century" (Wall Street Journal) must be read and understood by anyone concerned with preserving the human spirit in the face of our "brave new world"

Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling...

Now more than ever: Aldous Huxley's enduring "masterpiece ... one of the most prophetic dystopian works of the 20th century" (Wall Street Journal) must be read and understood by anyone concerned with preserving the human spirit in the face of our "brave new world"

Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling...

Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (1917-2007), known today as the architect of John F. Kennedy's presidential legacy--and the myth of Camelot--blazed an extraordinary path from Harvard University to wartime London to the West Wing. The son of a pioneering historian--and a two-time Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner in his own right--Schlesinger redefined the art of presidential biography. A Thousand Days, his best-selling record of the Kennedy administration, remains immensely influential and has cemented Schlesinger's place as one of the nation's greatest political image...