Heaven and Hell (essay)
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Heaven and Hell is a philosophical work by Aldous Huxley, published in 1956. The title is derived from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake. The essay explains the relationship between bright, colorful objects, geometric designs, psychoactives, and profound experience. The text is usually published in a volume combined with Huxley's companion work The Doors of Perception.
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- The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell, 1954, 1956, Harper & Brothers
- 1977 Harpercollins (UK), mass market paperback: ISBN 0-586-04437-X
- 1990 Harper Perennial edition: ISBN 0-06-090007-5
- 2004 Harper Modern Classics edition: ISBN 0-06-059518-3
- 2004 Sagebrush library binding: ISBN 1-4176-2859-6
| Works by Aldous Huxley | |
|---|---|
| Novels | Crome Yellow • Antic Hay • Those Barren Leaves • Point Counter Point • Brave New World • Eyeless in Gaza • After Many a Summer • Time Must Have a Stop • Ape and Essence • The Genius and the Goddess • Island • The Crows of Pearblossom |
| Short Stories | Limbo • Mortal Coils • Little Mexican • Two or Three Graces • Brief Candles • The Young Arquimedes • Jacob's Hands; A Fable • Collected Short Stories |
| Poetry | The Burning Wheel • Jonah • The Defeat of Youth • Leda • Arabia Infelix • The Cicadias and Other Poems • First Philosopher's Song |
| Travel writing | Along The Road • Jesting Pilate • Beyond the Mexique Bay |
| Essays | On the Margin • Along the Road • Essays New and Old • Proper Studies • Do What You Will • Vulgarity in Literature • Music at Night • Texts and Pretexts • The Olive Tree • Ends and Means • Words and their Meanings • The Art of Seeing • Science, Liberty and Peace • Themes and Variations • Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow • The Doors of Perception • Heaven and Hell • Adonis and the Alphabet • Collected Essays • Brave New World Revisited • Literature and Science |
| Philosophy | Ends and Means • The Perennial Philosophy |
| Biography | Grey Eminence • The Devils of Loudun |
| Collections | Text and Pretext • Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience • Collected Short Stories |
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