Aldous huxley biography book

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.

 

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  • Title: Aldous Huxley - A Biography | Volume 1 ()

    Author: Sybille Bedford

    Edition: First Edition

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    Publisher: Chatto & Windus, London, England

    Binding: Hardcover

    Pages: pages

    Dust Cover: Yes, with illustrative phot of Aldous Huxley

    Condition: Blue cloth boards with silver gilt lettering on spine. Slight tear to upper left edge of dustjacket. Minor foxing to edges of pages

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    In this dazzling conjunction of subject and author, the great English novelist Aldous Huxley, the wholly civilized man, is brought wholly alive in a magnificent full-scale biography by the brilliant English novelist Sybille Bedford, an intimate friend of the Huxleys through four decades. With a pointillistic richness of moment, place, and talk, she re-creates not only the private Huxley and the literary Huxley but the entire intellectual and social era to which he was central. Despite the almost total loss of his sight at age sixteen, Huxley became a titan and cultural hero of the decades after World War I, on terms with the outstanding writers and artists of his day, from D. H. Lawrence to Stravinksy and Auden. He had two separate and large careers as Crome Yellow and Point Counter Point, flag-bearer of England s Bright Young People through the s, and romancer of glittering women; and later, in America, as the increasingly philosophical and utopian thinker, and a pioneering explorer of the frontiers of the human mind. Drawing on his letters and diaries, the memories of his intimates, and her own sharp and sensitive comprehension of Huxley s writings, Mrs. Bedford has written a masterful biography. "Her novelist s eye," writes V. S. Pritchett, "brings the writer to life. Huxley becomes a living, deeply attractive presence, while his great contemporaries flash through these pages in memorable and moving encounters. Mrs. Bedford s biography stands as the major work on a major figure in the literary and intellectual history of the twentieth century."

    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 better part of his life's work) is off a little, but perhaps only because she had no particular part to play in the psychedelic movement- which would have given the author a wider range of understanding, as well, for some of Huxley's conclusions regarding the proper social role of these substances. And yes, he was very annoyed with Tim Leary's "marketing schemes"- as in retrospect I am myself. Some things just aren't for everyone, and if such interesting and "out of self" experiences can be induced naturally in certain people, it might do them a world more good than tripping. (There's lots more I could say about that, but, I like keeping reviews to the point)
  • Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English

    • Aldous Huxley

    English writer and philosopher (–)

    Aldous Leonard Huxley (AWL-dəs; 26 July – 22 November ) was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, 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. By 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, and was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in

    Huxley was a pacifist. He grew interested in philosophical mysticism, as well as universalism, addressing these subjects in his works such as The Perennial Philosophy (), which illustrates commonalities between Western and Eastern mysticism, and The Doors of Perception (), which interprets his own psychedelic experience with mescaline. In his most famous novel Brave New World () and his final novel Island (), he presented his visions of dystopia and utopia, respectively.

    Early life

    See also: Huxley family

    Huxley was born in Godalming, Surrey, England, on 26 July He was the third son of the writer and schoolmaster Leonard Huxley, who edited The Cornhill Magazine, and his first wife, Julia Arnold, who founded Prior's Field School. Julia was the niece of poet and critic Matthew Arnold and the sister of Mrs. Humphry Ward. Julia named him Aldous after a character in one of her sister's novels.