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Island is a 1962 utopian manifesto and novel by English writer Aldous Huxley, the author's final work before his death in 1963. Although it has a plot, the plot largely serves to further conceptual explorations rather than setting up and resolving conventional narrative tension.
Aldous Huxley full interview 1958: The Problems of Survival and Freedom in America; Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery "Aldous Huxley: The Gravity of Light", a film essay by Oliver Hockenhull; Aldous Huxley at IMDb; BBC discussion programme In our time: "Brave New World". Huxley and the novel. 9 April 2009. (Audio, 45 minutes)
Science, Liberty and Peace is an essay written by Aldous Huxley, published in 1946. The essay debates a wide range of subjects reflecting Huxley's views towards the direction of society at that time. He puts forward a number of predictions, many of which resonate far beyond the time when it was written. A consistent theme throughout the essay ...
Pages in category "Essays by Aldous Huxley" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. ... Heaven and Hell (essay) S. Science, Liberty and Peace
The psychiatrist had misgivings about giving the drug to Huxley, and wrote, "I did not relish the possibility, however remote, of being the man who drove Aldous Huxley mad," but instead found him an ideal subject. Huxley was "shrewd, matter-of-fact and to the point" and his wife Maria "eminently sensible". [25]
[10] Included in James Sexton's Selected Letters of Aldous Huxley is a "My dear Tom" letter that Huxley wrote to Eliot: "I venture to recommend" Alfred Korzybski's Science and Sanity, "by far the best thing on 'semantics' and the problem of the relations between words and things, ever produced." [11]
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.
The novel was written just after Huxley and his wife moved to Italy, where they lived from 1923 to 1927. [citation needed] The title is from the play Edward II by Christopher Marlowe, c1593, Act One, Scene One, lines 59-60: "My men, like satyrs grazing on the lawns, shall with their goat feet dance the antic hay", which is quoted on the ...