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Aldous Huxley : a biography
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ISBN: 0002160064 0002160145 9780002160063 9780002160148 Year: 1974 Publisher: London: Chatto and Windus,

Aldous Huxley: a collection of critical essays
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ISBN: 0134485068 0134485149 9780134485065 Year: 1974 Volume: 118 Publisher: Englewood Cliffs (N.J.): Prentice Hall,


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Temporaries and eternals : the music criticism of Aldous Huxley, 1922-23
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ISBN: 1443846902 9781443846905 9781443842174 1443842176 Year: 2013 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars,

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Marking the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), Temporaries and Eternals focuses on the music column that Huxley wrote for The Weekly Westminster Gazette in 1922-23. Readers of Huxley's novels, essays and travel writing will be aware of the wealth of musical detail in these works, and this book suggests that such references can only be fully understood in the context of the opinions voiced in Huxley's music criticism. Not only does Huxley's column offer a fascinati...


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Wandering into Brave new world
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ISBN: 9401209723 9789401209724 1306167515 9781306167512 9789042037168 9042037164 Year: 2013 Publisher: Amsterdam

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Wandering into Brave New World explores the historical contexts and contemporary sources of Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel which, seventy years after its initial publication remains the best known and most discussed dystopian work of the twentieth century. This new study addresses a number of questions which still remain open. Did his round-the-world trip in 1925-1926 provide material for the novel? Did India’s caste system contribute to the novel’s human levels? Is there an overarching pattern to the names of the novel/s characters? Has the role of Hollywood in the novel been underestimated? Is Lenina Crown a representative 1920's “flapper”? Did Huxley have knowledge of and sources for his Indian reservation characters and scenes quite independent of and more accurate than those of D. H. Lawrence’s writings? Did Huxley’s visit to Borneo contribute anything to the novel? New research allows substantive answers and even explains why Huxley linked such figures as Henry Ford and Sigmund Freud. It also shows how the novel overcomes its intense grounding in 1920's political turmoil to escape into the timelessness of dystopian fiction.


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Six jours dans la vie d'Aldous Huxley
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ISBN: 2130833446 9782130833444 2130833446 9782130833444 Year: 2022 Publisher: Paris : Presses Universitaires de France ; Humensis,

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L'écrivain britannique Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) n'est pas seulement l'auteur d'une fable contre-utopique au retentissement planétaire : sa vie très riche et son œuvre immense font de lui l'un des grands témoins du XXe siècle - de ses étrangetés, de ses horreurs comme de ses beautés. On le suit ici lors de six journées emblématiques : la perte soudaine de la vue quand il était adolescent ; sa rencontre avec l'écrivain D.H. Lawrence ; le succès visionnaire du Meilleur des mondes ; ses expériences avec des substances psychédéliques ; ses recherches sur la philosophie éternelle dans le désert de Californie ; enfin, sa mort orchestrée comme un dernier trip, le 22 novembre 1963, jour de l'assassinat de Kennedy. Etonnant !


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