Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The patriarch of the family was the zoologist and comparative anatomist Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895). His grandsons include: Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World and The Doors of Perception; his brother Julian Huxley, an evolutionary biologist and the first director of UNESCO; the Nobel laureate physiologist Andrew Huxley.
The following bibliography of Aldous Huxley provides a chronological list of the published works of English writer Aldous Huxley (1894–1963). It includes his fiction and non-fiction, both published during his lifetime and posthumously. [1] [2] Huxley was a writer and philosopher.
Point Counter Point is a novel by Aldous Huxley, first published in 1928. [1] It is Huxley's longest novel, and was notably more complex and serious than his earlier fiction. [1] In 1998, [2] the Modern Library ranked Point Counter Point 44th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. [3]
The Doors of Perception is an autobiographical book written by Aldous Huxley. Published in 1954, it elaborates on his psychedelic experience under the influence of mescaline in May 1953. Huxley recalls the insights he experienced, ranging from the "purely aesthetic" to "sacramental vision", [ 1 ] and reflects on their philosophical and ...
Aldous Huxley wrote in the foreword, "...a book unique, so far as my knowledge goes, in the literature of hagiography. Never have the small events of a contemplative's daily life been described with such a wealth of intimate detail. Never have the casual and unstudied utterances of a great religious teacher been set down with so minute a fidelity."
Crome Yellow is the first novel by British author Aldous Huxley, published by Chatto & Windus in 1921, followed by a U.S. edition by George H. Doran Company in 1922. Though a social satire of its time, it is still appreciated and has been adapted to different media.
After the Fireworks: Three Novellas is a collection of novellas written by Aldous Huxley, published in 1936. [1] The novellas was earlier published in separate short story volumes: [ 2 ] Content
The British Huxley family. Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895), British biologist known as "Darwin's Bulldog" Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), British writer, author of Brave New World, grandson of Thomas Huxley; Julian Huxley (1887–1975), British biologist, brother of Aldous Huxley; Andrew Huxley (1917–2012), British biologist, brother of Aldous ...