The Devils of Loudun

“Huxley’s masterpiece and perhaps the most enjoyable book about spirituality ever written. In telling the grotesque, bawdy and true story of a 17th-century convent of cloistered French nuns who contrived to have a priest they never met burned alive as a warlock … Huxley painlessly conveys a wealth of information about mysticism and the unconscious.” - Washington Post Book World“Masterful” - London Times“Here is the stuff that bizarre historical novels are made, but it is solidly based on fact and painstaking research… . This peak achievement of Huxley’s career reveals his sharp skill at characterization, his ability to recreate the smell and flavor of vanished eras… . A story that sounds like fiction but isn’t.” - New York Times“One of the best books by Aldous Huxley, both as a writer and as a thinker.” - The Guardian (UK)“An exciting and indeed compelling social-psychological interpretation of one of the strangest occurrences in history.” - Sociology and Social Research“A brilliant book … “The Devils of Loudun” shows Huxley’s genius at its best: It’s his scientific, almost forensic and detailed approach that makes us feel the truth and horror of what happened long ago in France. - Los Angeles Times

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) is the author of the classic novels Brave New World, Island, Eyeless in Gaza, and The Genius and the Goddess, as well as such critically acclaimed nonfiction works as The Perennial Philosophy and The Doors of Perception. Born in Surrey, England, and educated at Oxford, he died in Los Angeles, California.