Crome Yellow - formato ePub

Un libro tan singular como precursor, en el que el autor expresa sus experiencias sensoriales bajo la acción de la mescalina, el principio activo del peyotl, denominación mexicana del cacto, venerado...

"Mono y esencia" consta de dos partes bien diferenciadas. La primera se sitúa en 1948 donde Bob Briggs encuentra accidentalmente la copia rechazada de un guion titulado "Mono y esencia", firmado por un...

Adaptación de una de las distopías más influyentes de la ciencia ficción clásica. En un futuro cercano, tras una terrible guerra, la sociedad a nivel global se ha transformado. Se sigue el dogma del...

A veces la sombra de una novela, o de un puñado de libros, ensombrece la figura de un autor. Este sería el caso de Aldous Huxley, que desde hace décadas es aquel que escribió Un mundo feliz, y también...

El intelectual británico Jeremy Pordage llega a Los Ángeles contratado por Jospeh Panton Stoyte, millonario estadounidense, para evaluar y tasar unos manuscritos antiquísimos. En el extravagante castillo...

Más allá del Golfo de México narra los incidentes del viaje hecho por Huxley a través de Centroamérica, el Caribe y el sur de México, donde los paisajes, las personas y los múltiples incidentes sirvieron...

Dos ensayos que propugnan una nueva visión maravillosamente depurada bajo la acción de la droga y que son en sí mismos experiencias de trascendencia del yo. «Si las puertas de la percepción quedaran depuradas,...

"Limbo" è la prima raccolta di racconti di Aldous Huxley. Pubblicata nel 1920 contiene sette racconti visionari e satirici, che introducono alcuni temi che staranno alla base di tutta la produzione successiva...

Vasta erudición y profunda sensibilidad no están reñidas en este estudio que rastrea, a través de todas las grandes culturas de la historia, eso que Leibniz denominó "Philosophia Perennis": la búsqueda...

Ciego en Gaza (1936) es, ante todo, una novela personal e íntima. En conflicto entre lo intelectual y lo sexual y a través del misticismo, Huxley nos describe simultáneamente y sin aparente orden cronológico,...

En una isla imaginaria de Pali se produce el choque entre dos modos de entender la vida y las relaciones humanas.Cuando el periodista Will Farnaby desembarca en la isla entra en contacto con unas costumbres,...

Las relaciones entre un eminente físico, su bella mujer y un inexperto joven que aspira a convertirse en científico se transforman, por una extraña combinación de deseo y enfermedad, en la manifestación...

Contrapunto es posiblemente la novela más ambiciosa y lograda de Huxley y la que dio mayor fama internacional, pues en ella da forma literaria al contrapunto musical, alternando acciones simultáneas que...

Sebastian Barnac tiene diecisiete años. Es un adolescente extremadamente tímido, guapo y con alma de poeta, que inspira cariño y ternura por sus facciones infantiles.Un verano viaja a Italia y en ese...

Con el término "eminencia gris" se suele describir al consejero de un gobernante que actúa secretamente o de forma no oficial. Y exactamente eso hizo el padre José de Tremblay, prominente miembro de...

La colección «Conocer una obra» os ofrece la posibilidad de saberlo todo sobre Un mundo feliz de Aldous Huxley, gracias a una guía de lectura tan completa como detallada. Su escritura, clara y accesible,...

When a big-city pastry chef falls for a small-town stud muffin… life couldn't get any sweeter.After Lexi Caehill receives an inheritance from her grandmother, she escapes her manipulative family and sacrifices...

A silver-haired charmer with a shameful secret. A broken-hearted matchmaker with a guilty burden. And a bewildering disappearance that could wrench them apart.Regina Blynde knows Seth Updike is trouble...

Danni loves running but not when it's for her life.Her friend is in trouble. Her mom quit the family business. Her father needs money. Again.And someone is trying to kill Danni. Two attempts have been...

If you give Oberon the Irish wolfhound a bath, he's going to ask you for a story. Fortunately, his human, Atticus, has many centuries of life under his belt as the Iron Druid, and a whole lot of stories...

He's the golden quarterback of Nolan U Football. His life is perfect. His future is set… until he finds out his high school sweetheart secretly had a baby girl… his baby girl. I'm a father. Holy f**k,...

FROM THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF CALL ME BY YOUR NAME 'You don't so much read André Aciman's novels as tumble breathlessly into them.'THE TIMESHave you ever had the sense that maybe...

'A work of art that fully justifies its existence on its own terms . . . the comic driving you back to the novel, and vice versa.' Guardian on City of Glass A thrilling graphic novel adaptation of...

★★★★★ "This series gets better with every book, which probably breaks one of the laws of physics or something." The lives of G&C London, Leeds' best magical investigators (well, only magical investigators,...

Following the success of Seeing Dead, Edgar D Jackson returns with a chilling new novel that turns the horror genre on its head.Revolving around themes of identity and the LGBTQ+ experience, The Secret...

In the Court of the Crimson Kings plunges readers into an alternate universe where early space probes revealed Mars to be brimming with life. Now human explorers walk the red sands, navigating a world...

Jade moves out of her safe commune, inhabited by humans merged with inter-dimensional beings, and takes on a mission of observing and analyzing human behavior in the outside world. But questions about...

A Civil War farmer's harrowing odyssey from battle to desertion ends in tragedy, revealing the era's tumultuous spirit through a series of poignant vignettes.William Henry Howe, a modest farmer, leaves...

They have loved and lost each other for lifetimes. This time, can they escape fate?Sylvia and Andrés are bound by a love that defies time, distance, and even death. From New York's underground dance and...

The Jonathon Island series is created by USA Today bestselling, award-winning author Susan May Warren.The last thing she needs is for some big-city know-it-all to destroy everything she loves…Tourism...

Survival is only the beginning. Imogen Hart waits to be executed at the hands of the warrior nation Carran. Aboard the colonial spacecraft Conestoga, truth is running out of allies – or so it seems. As...

Don’t miss this follow-up to Book 1 in The Texian Trilogy series that Texas Books In Review calls, “A brilliant debut . . . by the conclusion of this wonderful novel, the reader will find themselves ready...

A long-hidden force stirs in the heart of the Utah desert, and a killer sets out on a path to power and vengeance, leaving a trail of bodies in their wake. Gene Bradshaw and Jack Cartwright, newly partnered...

Florence Sterling should be living a perfect life, but dark memories of her past still haunt her.She and her baby were murdered, but now, after a miraculous second chance at life, Florence struggles with...

Some sins refuse to stay buried.Murder was the last thing Frank Dodge expected to find on a Mississippi River cruise. But when three sisters board the riverboat River Voyager hunting for their father's...

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2025 by The Washington Post, Debutiful, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, and LitHub Publishers Weekly Writer to Watch for Spring 2025 There, There meets The...

He's a criminal; she's a cop. Together, they're incendiary. After a long day at work slaving away for a boss who hates you, wouldn't you just want some food and your bed? Detective Inspector Cheryl Spiers...

Vancouver Detective Kate Morgan has had bad days before, but getting a message about her long-lost brother hit her hard. She couldn't trust some anonymous source, yet neither could she let any tip slide....

The pouring rain was no match for eleven-year-old Karma Jones as she fled from The Farm, a dangerous cult that had held her captive for years. With each step, she knew the fate of not only herself but...

A dark and spicy enemies-to-lovers fantasy romance about a beautiful healer mage forced out of hiding and into service of a charismatic but aloof fae lord after her brothers contract a deadly plague....

An original novel set in the Halo universe - based on the New York Times best-selling video game series2559. It has been a year since the rogue artificial intelligence Cortana seized control of the Domain,...

OutFoxing the Paranormal's benefactor, Ms. Montague, has a new assignment for the team: to investigate the haunted asylum Oscar's grandmother died in. But upon arriving at the site, they find a rival...

In the suburbs of New Jersey, where temple gossip flows like Manischewitz wine, eleven-year-old Andy becomes entangled in a whirlwind of maternal quirks and religious intrigue. His mother's bizarre obsession...

In The Hermit, debut author Katerina Grishakova delivers a gripping exploration of the human psyche against the backdrop of high-stakes finance. Join Andy Sylvain, a seasoned bond trader, as he navigates...

Guarded hearts are the hardest to open, and his is more guarded than most. But that won't stop her from trying…Adelaide Ashbourne used to have it all – before she ended up divorced, jobless, and facing...

Readers have been waiting for this ultra-romantic book from 10-Time USA Today Bestselling Author Jess Michaels.Former champion pugilist Campbell Ripley has been fascinated by Jane Kendall since the first...