Aldous huxley biography book

  • It is a portrait of a daring and iconoclastic novelist; a man hampered by semi-blindness, who spent a restless life in search of personal enlightenment.
  • A magnificent full-scale biography by the brilliant English novelist Sybille Bedford, an intimate friend of the Huxleys through four decades.
  • In this dazzling conjunction of subject and author, the great English novelist Aldous Huxley, the wholly civilized man, is brought wholly alive in a.

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    Aldous Huxley: A Biography

    November 26,
    Well I will personally dispense with reading the early part of this, simply because Woodcock's book covered it very well, and this is more a hagiography albeit by a personal friend. But already one thing I never knew, and I am sure most of you did not, either, is that Huxley's famous "grey flannel trousers" seen as "miraculous" beneath the expansion valve of the mescaline experience, were actually blue jeans. Just think how many more pairs of Levi's they could have sold! (yuk, yuk.) Were it not for Mrs. Huxley's editorial primness, hoping to reach a more highbrow audience. Well it's just one of the fascinating trivia available in this version of the man's biography. But I'd put the emphasis here more on the trivia, as, unlike Woodcock, she focuses on the human being and his trials, than on the literature and the message. Not that they were few, nor un-noteworthy. Her insights as to the message of his book Island (a culmination of the be

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    Aldous Huxley

    English writer and philosopher (–)

    Aldous Leonard Huxley (AWL-dəs; 26 July – 22 November ) was an English writer and philosopher.[1][2][3][4] His bibliography spans nearly 50 books,[6] including non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives, and poems.

    Born into the prominent Huxley family, he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with a degree in English literature. Early in his career, he published short stories and poetry and edited the literary magazine Oxford Poetry, before going on to publish travel writing, satire, and screenplays. He spent the latter part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from until his death.[7] bygd the end of his life, Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times,[9] and was elected Companion of Literature bygd the Royal Society of Literature

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    Aldous Huxley - A Biography | Volume 1 ( - )

    Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July – 22 November ) was an English writer and philosopher. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times and was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in His most famous novel was “Brave New World”, which depicted a future in which universal happiness is only achieved by dehumanizing humanity.

     

    The author, Sybille Bedford, a famous writer in her own right was a close friend of Aldous Huxley and his extended family. She is best placed to write an extensive and authorised biography on the novelist, Aldous Huxley.

     

    In Volume 1 (), the author explores the first half of Aldous Huxley's life.

     

    Interested in buying Volume 2 of Aldous Huxley's Biography for the period ()? Why not purchase Volume 2 as well to complete the set. Both Volume 1 and Volume 2 are available at The Fine Art Hut. 

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