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Aldous Huxley: An English Intellectual
Nicholas Murray
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Description for Aldous Huxley: An English Intellectual
Paperback. * Fascinating and perceptive new biography of one of the most brilliant writers of his age: novelist, essayist and born-again mystic Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), author of BRAVE NEW WORLD and EYELESS IN GAZA Num Pages: 512 pages, Section: 16, b/w. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 127 x 33. Weight in Grams: 366.
The grandson of biologist T. H. Huxley, Aldous Huxley had a privileged background and was educated at Eton and Oxford despite an eye infection that left him nearly blind. Having learned braille his eyesight then improved enough for him to start writing, and by the 1920s he had become a fashionable figure, producing witty and daring novels like CROME YELLOW (1921), ANTIC HAY (1923) and POINT COUNTER POINT (1928). But it is as the author of his celebrated portrayal of a nightmare future society, BRAVE NEW WORLD (1932), that Huxley is remembered today. A truly visionary book, it was a ... Read more
The grandson of biologist T. H. Huxley, Aldous Huxley had a privileged background and was educated at Eton and Oxford despite an eye infection that left him nearly blind. Having learned braille his eyesight then improved enough for him to start writing, and by the 1920s he had become a fashionable figure, producing witty and daring novels like CROME YELLOW (1921), ANTIC HAY (1923) and POINT COUNTER POINT (1928). But it is as the author of his celebrated portrayal of a nightmare future society, BRAVE NEW WORLD (1932), that Huxley is remembered today. A truly visionary book, it was a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349113487
SKU
V9780349113487
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About Nicholas Murray
Nicholas Murray was born in Liverpool in 1952. He has written acclaimed biographies of Bruce Chatwin, Matthew Arnold and the poet Andrew Marvell. He is married and lives in the Welsh Marches.
Reviews for Aldous Huxley: An English Intellectual
This excellent biography has come at the right time
Jeanette Winterson, THE TIMES
Generous and intelligent biography
J.G. Ballard, GUARDIAN
A richly detailed, thoroughly sympathetic portrait
SUNDAY HERALD
[Murray] provides an appropriately multifaceted portrait of Huxley, emphasising the continuities in his life as well as the radical open-mindedness that informed it.
SUNDAY TIMES ... Read more
Jeanette Winterson, THE TIMES
Generous and intelligent biography
J.G. Ballard, GUARDIAN
A richly detailed, thoroughly sympathetic portrait
SUNDAY HERALD
[Murray] provides an appropriately multifaceted portrait of Huxley, emphasising the continuities in his life as well as the radical open-mindedness that informed it.
SUNDAY TIMES ... Read more