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The Aldous Huxley Library
Civilisation promises happiness, order, progress, and occasionally delivers them at a rather alarming price. The Aldous Huxley Library presents complete readings of Huxley’s novels, essays, and philosophical works: lucid, disturbing explorations of freedom, pleasure, power, technology, consciousness, and the curious human talent for constructing our own cages. Enter the laboratory. Examine the specimen. The specimen, of course, is us.
Episodes
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Those Barren Leaves Part 1 An Evening at Mrs. Aldwinkle's Chapter 5
In which Mr. Cardan dispenses his characteristic blend of worldly wit and cynical insight during a quiet evening gathering, engaging in a spirited conversation…
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Those Barren Leaves Part 1 An Evening at Mrs. Aldwinkle's Chapter 4
In which a group of well-heeled guests traverse a starlit Italian terrace, where discourse ranges from the passionate southern climate to delicate…
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Those Barren Leaves Part 1 An Evening at Mrs. Aldwinkle's Chapter 3
In which a convivial dinner in the grand Saloon of the Ancestors sparks a lively discourse on the vanished splendours of formality, flattery, and the artful…
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Those Barren Leaves Part 1 An Evening at Mrs. Aldwinkle's Chapter 2
In which the dusky splendour of an Italian palace and its sweeping landscape serves as a backdrop to Mrs. Aldwinkle’s imperious and somewhat theatrical…
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Those Barren Leaves Part 1 An Evening at Mrs. Aldwinkle's Chapter 1
In which the sunlit town of Vezza hums perpetually with the restless murmur of mountain torrents and is crowned by the imposing, storied palace recently…
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Mortal Coils Chapter 5 - Nuns at Luncheon
In which Miss Penny recounts her adventurous sojourn in Germany, where a tragic entanglement involving a once-devout nun, a condemned young man, and the…
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Mortal Coils Chapter 4 - Green Tunnels, Part 2
In which a young woman’s solitary swim is interrupted by a cryptic message on the sand, stirring mysterious reflections and nascent feelings amid the shifting…
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Mortal Coils Chapter 4 - Green Tunnels, Part 1
In which a languid summer afternoon in Italy unfolds around lingering conversations of history, politics, and the slow growth of green tunnels, while Barbara…
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Mortal Coils Chapter 3 - The Tillotson Banquet, Part 2
In which an aged artist of fading vigour yet unquenchable spirit prepares for a banquet in a borrowed dress-suit, surrounded by the caprices and vanities of…
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Mortal Coils Chapter 3 - The Tillotson Banquet, Part 1
In which an ambitious young art critic endeavours to secure the patronage of a wealthy and eccentric nobleman obsessed with a forgotten nineteenth-century…
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Mortal Coils Chapter 2 - Permutations Among the Nightingales
In which a gathering of souls on a moonlit Italian terrace reveals the delicate and sometimes discordant interplay of desire, social rank, and emotional…
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Mortal Coils Chapter 1 - The Gioconda Smile, Part 2
In which a man wrestles with the consequences of his reckless desires and the bitter realities of human passion, set against the somber backdrop of whispered…
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Mortal Coils Chapter 1 - The Gioconda Smile, Part 1
In which Mr. Hutton returns to the countryside, navigating the delicate tensions of marriage and companionship, while reflecting with amused detachment on…