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This book debates a wide range of subjects reflecting Huxley's views towards the direction society is going. He puts forward a number of predictions, many of which resonate far beyond the time when it was written. A consistent theme throughout the essay is Huxley's...
The theme of this particular book (set around Manchester and Cornwall, as so many of his are) is that there is no armour against fate; and the period it covers was certainly a fateful one, ranging as it does from the close of the Victorian era through two World Wars....
The Human Situation: Lectures at Santa Barbara, 1959 is a book by Aldous Huxley that compiles his lectures given at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1959, exploring human nature, society, and the modern world's challenges and potentials, synthesized with...
From the pomp of Victoria’s reign to the end of World War II, a brilliant panorama of life in England and Europe is the setting of the story of an extraordinary woman. Sarah Rainborough was a little girl when she was taken away from the elegance of London society to...
Contemporary intellectuals still struggle over the relationship of ends to means, especially in political discourse. Pacifism is still an important topic today, as terrorism and dictatorial states abound. Many will find solace in Ends and Means, while others will find...
When he was a schoolboy George Ledra watched the recruits of World War I marching through the Manchester streets. His account of his own life; which makes this novel, concludes with the ending of the second war. This is a stretch of time that Howard Spring has often...
Maria Legassick is the youngest of the three daughters of a Cornish vicar, and she tells here the story of what happened, in a swiftly-changing world, to herself, her sisters, and her brilliant, gifted brother—Roger whom she loved too well; Louisa whom she admired but...
The author describes his experiences traveling through the Caribbean to Guatemala and southern Mexico in 1933.
Beginning just before the outbreak of the First World War, this is the story of the moral values of the age. It is a story of illegitimacy and deception—where a child has to come to terms with discovering who his mother really is. It is a story in which romance is set...
After winning a lottery, Miss Haslett, a middle-aged school mistress, seeks financial advice. She is introduced to a stockbroker, John Throgmorton, and shortly thereafter is found murdered. Scotland Yard's DI Martin is called in to investigate.
First published in 1932, ''Murder in the Dentist Chair'' by Molly Thynne (d. 1950), public domain worldwide. In Death in the Dentist’s Chair (1932) Thynne adopts the same crime scene as Agatha Christie used some years later in One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (1940). She...
First published in 1931, ''The Crime at the 'Noah's Ark'' by Molly Thynne (d. 1950), public domain worldwide. In The Crime at The Noah’s Ark (1931), an ill-assorted group of guests find themselves marooned by snow at the aptly named hostelry The Noah’s Ark. Most of...
This delightful set of stories about the adventures of a mischievous koala has been loved by generations of young Australians. Dorothy Wall's amusing tales and drawings, and her love of the bush and concern for its conservation, still have the power to enchant children...
This tale of intrigue begins with the kidnapping of the bride, Julia, on the first day of the couple's honeymoon. With the help of various friends and the interference of foes, Alistair Granby, agent of the Crown, rescues his new wife from the kidnappers. In doing so,...
First published in 1933, ''He Dies and Makes no Sign'' by Molly Thynne (d. 1950), public domain worldwide. The final mystery by Thynne also features Constantine and Detective Inspector Arkwright. In He Dies and Makes No Sign (1933) Constantine is summoned by the...
A year after Vita Sackville-West first travelled to Iran - a journey described in the classic Passenger to Teheran - she returned to the land that had so captured her imagination. For twelve days, with her husband and three friends, she embarked on a difficult and often...
These people live in Cooper Station, U.S.A.: Anthony Cooper, nephew of the owners of Cooper's Mills Chris Pappas, the guy from the wrong side of the tracks Doris Palmer, wife of a wealthy manufacturer David Strong, the music teacher Beneath the seemingly calm surface...
Set in the early years of the 19th century, this story is a tale of conspiracy, secret societies, foreign agents and a fiendish plot to assassinate the Prime Minister. Anthony Lammas, a young professor of philosophy at St Andrews, becomes involved with a secret society...
Professor Erwin Panofsky’s study, ''Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism,'' captured and holds an eminent place in a series that is not without distinction, the Wimmer Lectures. Erwin Panofsky, in “Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism,” indicates with grace and...
Narrative poem, a huge success at the time of its publication, and the inspiration for the 1944 movie The White Cliffs of Dover. The White Cliffs is a novel in verse, the story of an American girl who falls in love with an Englishman in the era of World War I. The...
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