Books in Perennial library series

The magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a proud stranger in his native land. He was a young American Indian named Abel, and he lived in two worlds. One was that of his father, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, the ecstasy of the drug called peyote. The other was the world of the twentieth century, goading him into a compulsive cycle of sexual exploits, dissipation, and disgust. Home from a foreign war, he was a man being torn apart, a man descending into hell.

This first Perennial Library edition (P23) was first published in 1965. It is the second edition published by Harper & Row. Much of the material was first published in Newsday under the title "Tyranny Of the Mind". When the novel Brave New World first appeared, in 1932, its shocking analysis of a scientific dictator­ship seemed a projection into the remote future. Today the science of thought control has raced far beyond the dreams of Hitler and Stalin. Methods for destroying individual freedom are being rapidly developed, and the pressures to adopt them are becoming increasingly powerful. Now, in one of the most important, fascinating, and frightening books of his career, Aldous Huxley scrutinizes these and other threats to humanity and demonstrates why we may find it virtually impossible to resist them. With overpowering impact, this book is a chal­lenge to complacency and a plea that mankind should educate itself for freedom before it is too late.