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There are 168 hours in a week. This is your guide to getting the most out of them.

It's an unquestioned truth of modern life: we are starved for time. We tell ourselves we'd like to read more, get to the gym regularly, try new hobbies, and ac

"I well recall a conversation with an executive I hoped to interview about her astonishing productivity. I began our call with an assurance that I would not take much of her time. She laughed. 'Oh, I have all the time in the world,' she sai

作者：Henry David Thoreau

书名：The Portable Thoreau

简介：Henry David Thoreau dedicated his life to preserving his freedom as a man and an artist. Nature was the

作者：Henry David Thoreau

书名：Cape Cod《科德角》

简介：Based on several trips to the Cape and originally published as a series of articles, Henry David Thoreau&#

作者：Henry David Thoreau

书名：Walking《行走》

简介：The philosophies of Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)—hero to environmentalists and ecologists, pro

作者：Henry David Thoreau

书名：Civil Disobedience《论公民的不服从权利》

简介：Resistance to Civil Government, called Civil Disobedience for short, is an essay by

作者：Henry David Thoreau

书名：Civil Disobedience and Other Essays《瓦尔登湖及其他》

简介：Civil Disobedience and Other Essays is a collection of some of Henry Da

作者：Henry David Thoreau

书名：Walden & Civil Disobedience《瓦尔登湖及论公民的不服从权利》

简介：Henry David Thoreau's masterwork, Walden, is a collection of

作者：Henry David Thoreau

书名：Walden《瓦尔登湖》

简介：Originally published in 1854, Walden; or, Life in the Woods, is a vivid account of the time that Henry D.

作者：Arthur C. Brooks

书名：From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life

简介：The roadmap for finding purpos

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 convent of nuns in what was the most sensational case of

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Written at the height of his powers immediately after Brave New World, Aldous Huxley's highly acclaimed Eyeless in Gaza is his most personal novel. Huxley's bold, nontraditional narrative tells the loosely autobiographical story of Anthony Beavi

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 Renaissan

Two or Three Graces (1926), Aldous Huxley's fourth collection of short fiction, consists of the following four short pieces:
"Two or Three Graces"
"Half Holiday"
"The Monocle"
"Fairy Godmother" 

"'After the Fireworks' is a major work and a turning point for Huxley, leading directly to Brave New World.” --Gary Giddins, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award 

In After the Fireworks, three lost classic pieces of short fic

Aldous Huxley's lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest expression both thematically and formally in his masterpiece Point Counter Point. By presenting a vision of life in which diverse aspects of experience a

"If the arrangement of society is bad (as ours is), and a small number of people have power over the majority and oppress it, every victory over Nature will inevitably serve only to increase that power and that oppression. This is what is actually ha

Thirty years ago, ecstasy and torment took hold of John Rivers, shocking him out of "half-baked imbecility into something more nearly resembling the human form." He had an affair with the wife of his mentor, Henry Maartens--a pathbreaking physic

Antic Hay is one of Aldous Huxley's earlier novels, and like them is primarily a novel of ideas involving conversations that disclose viewpoints rather than establish characters; its polemical theme unfolds against the backdrop of London's post-

In February 2108, the New Zealand Rediscovery Expedition reaches California at last. It is over a century since the world was devastated by nuclear war, but the blight of radioactivity and disease still gnaws away at the survivors. The expedition expects

A Hollywood millionaire with a terror of death, whose personal physician happens to be working on a theory of longevity-these are the elements of Aldous Huxley's caustic and entertaining satire on man's desire to live indefinitely. With his cust

In Island, his last novel, Huxley transports us to a Pacific island where, for 120 years, an ideal society has flourished. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala,

“A genius . . . a writer who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine.”  — The New Yorker

Brave New World author Aldous Huxley on enlightenment and the "ultimate reality"

In this anthology of twenty-six essays and other writ