The Doors of Perception
And Heaven and Hell
- Published: 1 July 2010
- ISBN: 9781407020389
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 144
Concise, evocative, wise and, above all, humane, The Doors of Perception is a masterpiece
Sunday Times
The Doors of Perception is a poignant book, partly because it reveals the human frailties and yearnings of a very cerebral writer
Financial Times
There is nothing the pen of Huxley touches which it does not illuminate, and as the record of a highly civilised, brilliantly articulate man under the influence of an astonishing drug, The Doors of Perception is a tour de force
Daily Telegraph
You can look at Aldous Huxley and draw parallels with the Beatles: Crome Yellow and Those Barren Leaves were his breakthrough Merseybeat books, Point Counter Point was his 'Revolver', with The Doors of Perception his full-blown Sergeant Pepper trip. Like the Beatles, Huxley had so many ideas in his head that it was natural he would want to expand and experiment. What drugs provided for them both was not escape, but reevaluation
The Times