Fiction in English

Philip Carey is an orphan eager for life, love and adventure. After a few months studying in Heidelburg, and a brief spell in Paris as a would-be artist, he settles in London to train as a doctor. He meets Mildred, the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a formative, tortured...

From the author of "A Town Like Alice", "On the Beach", "In the Wet", "A Far Country" and "Trustee From the Board Room", "Pied Piper" is the story of one mans' rescue of seven abandoned children during the Nazi invasion of France in the summer of 1940.

Huxley's fourth novel is both a portrait of the brilliant and frivolous intellectual and artistic circles of the 1920s, and an examination of the eternal question, "what is the happy, healthy life?" It contains portraits of D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Ottoline Morrell and Huxley himself.