![]() In 1959, Aldous Huxley received the Award of Merit for the Novel from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. from a phrase in William Blakes 1793 poem The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell, both works of nonfiction, were based on his experiences while taking mescaline under supervision. Read The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley available from Rakuten Kobo. During the 1950s, he experimented with mescaline and LSD. In 1947, Huxley moved with his family to southern California. In all, Huxley produced 47 works during his long career, His most famous novel, Brave New World, published in 1932, is a science fiction classic about a futuristic society controlled by technology. Crome Yellow, his first novel, was published in 1927 followed by Antic Hay, Those Barren Leaves, and Point Counter Point. While at Oxford, he published two volumes of poetry. ![]() Following an eye illness at age 16 that resulted in near-blindness, Huxley abandoned hope of a career in medicine and turned instead to literature, attending Oxford University and graduating with honors. Among the most profound and influential explorations of mind-expanding psychadelic drugs ever written, here are two complete classic books- The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell -in which Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, reveals the minds remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness. Aldous Huxley was born on July 26, 1894, in Surrey, England, into a distinguished scientific and literary family his grandfather was the noted scientist and writer, T.H. ![]()
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