- New Arrivals
Fiction- Historical FictionCrime & ThrillersMysteryScience-FictionFantasyPoetryRomanceChildren’s BooksYoung Adult
- Biographies & MemoirsHistoryCurrent AffairsTech & ScienceBusinessSelf-DevelopmentTravelThe ArtsFood & WineReligion & SpiritualitySportsHumor
Children’s BooksListsGift CardsWhat To ReadMy ListsGames- About & Help
- About Tertulia
- Membership & Co-Ownership
- Shipping & Delivery
- Orders & Payments
- Contact Support
- Send App Feedback
- Follow us
- Download the app
The co-op bookstore for avid readers
The Devils of Loudun
"HUXLEY'S MASTERPIECE AND PERHAPS THE MOST ENJOYABLE BOOK ABOUT SPIRITUALITY EVER WRITTEN. ." -- Washington Post Book World
Aldous Huxley's "brilliant" (Los Angeles Times) and gripping account of one of the strangest occurrences in history, hailed as the "peak achievement of Huxley's career" by the New York Times
In 1632 an entire convent in the small French village of Loudun was apparently possessed by the devil. After a sensational and celebrated trial, the convent's charismatic priest Urban Grandier--accused of spiritually and sexually seducing the nuns in his charge--was convicted of being in league with Satan. Then he was burned at the stake for witchcraft.
A remarkable true story of religious and sexual obsession, The Devils of Loudon is considered by many to be Brave New World author Aldous Huxley's nonfiction masterpiece.
Book Details
- Publisher: Harper Perennial
- Publish Date: Jul 28th, 2009
- Pages: 368
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.80in - 5.20in - 1.00in - 0.65lb
- EAN: 9780061724916
- Categories: • Cults• Europe - France• Demonology & Satanism
More books to explore
About the Author
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.
More books by Aldous Huxley
What people are saying
Millennial writer/science editor with the heart of an aging horror host. Author of EVERY CRAWLING, PUTRID THING. Most recent nonfiction @unwinnable. He/him.
"Many Christians...have paid more attention to evil and the problem of its eradications than to good and the methods by which individual goodness may be deepened... The effects which follow...are always disastrous." - Aldous Huxley, The Devils of Loudun (1952)
Welsh born photographer of stage and screen whose hey day was from 1930s to the 1980s. A small tribute.
Scenes from John Whiting’s adaptation of the horrific Aldous Huxley novel “The Devils of Loudun” Angus McBean attributed, Aldwych/ Stratford 1961. For John Whiting, British actor, dramatist and critic (1917-1963) https://t.co/muO6jw8YH5
married to the game #IncreasinglyNugget °˖✧ Plz y’all im so close get free cash💰 Plz help me click 🔗 https://t.co/BsCakg4h8p
Aldous Huxley's The Devils of Loudun anticipates the current woke religion. The novel is about a group of monks who are tortured and brainwashed by a group of noblemen in the 1600s. The novel explores the idea that humans are capable of inflicting great cruelty on one another
Praise for this book
"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
"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
"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)
"Masterful" -- London Times
"An exciting and indeed compelling social-psychological interpretation of one of the strangest occurrences in history." -- Sociology and Social Research
What people are saying
Millennial writer/science editor with the heart of an aging horror host. Author of EVERY CRAWLING, PUTRID THING. Most recent nonfiction @unwinnable. He/him.
"Many Christians...have paid more attention to evil and the problem of its eradications than to good and the methods by which individual goodness may be deepened... The effects which follow...are always disastrous." - Aldous Huxley, The Devils of Loudun (1952)
Welsh born photographer of stage and screen whose hey day was from 1930s to the 1980s. A small tribute.
Scenes from John Whiting’s adaptation of the horrific Aldous Huxley novel “The Devils of Loudun” Angus McBean attributed, Aldwych/ Stratford 1961. For John Whiting, British actor, dramatist and critic (1917-1963) https://t.co/muO6jw8YH5