Ends and Means

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Ends and Means (an Enquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization) is a book of essays written by Aldous Huxley. It was published in 1937. The book contains illuminating tracts on war, religion, nationalism and ethics, and was cited as a major influence on Thomas Merton in his autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain.

v t e Works by Aldous Huxley

Novels	Crome Yellow (1921) Antic Hay (1923) Those Barren Leaves (1925) Point Counter Point (1928) Brave New World (1932) Eyeless in Gaza (1936) After Many a Summer (1939) Time Must Have a Stop (1944) Ape and Essence (1948) The Genius and the Goddess (1955) Island (1962)

Short stories	"Happily Ever After" "Eupompus Gave Splendour to Art by Numbers" "Cynthia" "The Bookshop" "The Death of Lully" "Sir Hercules" "The Gioconda Smile" "The Tillotson Banquet" "Green Tunnels" "Nuns at Luncheon" "Little Mexican" "Hubert and Minnie" "Fard" "The Portrait" "Young Archimedes" "Half Holiday" "The Monocle" "Fairy Godmother" "Chawdron" "The Rest Cure" "The Claxtons" "After the Fireworks" "Jacob's Hands: A Fable" (published 1997) co-written with Christopher Isherwood

Short story collections	Limbo (1920) Mortal Coils (1922) Little Mexican (US title: Young Archimedes) (1924) Two or Three Graces (1926) Brief Candles (1930) Collected Short Stories (1957)

Poetry	The Burning Wheel (1916) Jonah (1917) The Defeat of Youth (1918) Leda (1920) Arabia Infelix (1929) The Cicadias and Other Poems (1931) Collected Poetry (1971)

Travel writing	Along the Road (1925) Jesting Pilate (1926) Beyond the Mexique Bay (1934)

Essay collections	On the Margin (1923) Essays New and Old (1926) Proper Studies (1927) Do What You Will (1929) Vulgarity in Literature (1930) Music at Night (1931) Texts and Pretexts (1932) The Olive Tree (1936) Ends and Means (1937) Words and their Meanings (1940) Science, Liberty and Peace (1946) Themes and Variations (1950) The Doors of Perception (1954) Adonis and the Alphabet (US title: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow) (1956) Heaven and Hell (1956) Collected Essays (1958) Brave New World Revisited (1958) Literature and Science (1963) The Human Situation: 1959 Lectures at Santa Barbara (1977) Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience (1999)

Screenplays	Pride and Prejudice (1940) Madame Curie (uncredited, 1943) Jane Eyre (1944) A Woman's Vengeance (1947) Prelude to Fame (1950) Alice in Wonderland (uncredited, 1951)

Non-fiction	The Perennial Philosophy (1945) Grey Eminence (1941) The Devils of Loudun (1952)

Plays	The Discovery (based on Frances Sheridan) (1924) The World of Light (1931) The Gioconda Smile (adapted from the original in Mortal Coils) (1948) The Genius and the Goddess (play version, with Betty Wendel) (1957) The Ambassador of Captripedia (1965) Now More Than Ever (1997)

Children's books	The Crows of Pearblossom (1944, published 1967) The Travails and Tribulations of Geoffrey Peacock (1967)

Other books	The Art of Seeing (1942) Selected Letters (2007)

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