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Aldous Leonard Huxley (/ ˈ ɔː l d ə s / AWL-dəs; 26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. [1] [2] [3] [4] His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, [5] [6] including novels and non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives, and poems.
May 9, 2024 · Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), English writer best known for his dystopian novel Brave New World (1932). His works are notable for their wit and pessimistic satire and for their ongoing exploration of the negative and positive impacts of science and technology on 20th-century life.
Jan 14, 2024 · Best remembered for his dystopian masterpiece, Aldous Huxley was a man of unshakable principles that informed what he wrote and how he lived his life. Jan 14, 2024 • By Catherine Dent, MA 20th and 21st Century Literary Studies, BA English Literature.
Aldous Huxley Biography. Aldous Huxley was born in Surrey, England, on July 26, 1894, to an illustrious family deeply rooted in England’s literary and scientific tradition.
Jan 23, 2020 · Aldous Huxley (July 26, 1894–November 22, 1963) was a British writer who authored more than 50 books and a large selection of poetry, stories, articles, philosophical treatises, and screenplays.
About Aldous Huxley: Brave New World (1932), best-known work of British writer Aldous Leonard Huxley, paints a grim picture of a scientifically organized...
Jul 22, 2015 · Aldous Huxley (July 26, 1894–November 22, 1963) endures as one of the most visionary and unusual minds of the twentieth century — a man of strong convictions about drugs, democracy, and religion and immensely prescient ideas about the role of technology in human life; a prominent fixture of Carl Sagan’s reading list; and the author of a ...
Aldous Huxley, (born July 26, 1894, Godalming, Surrey, Eng.—died Nov. 22, 1963, Los Angeles, Calif., U.S.), British novelist and critic. Grandson of T.H. Huxley and brother of Julian Huxley, he was partially blind from childhood.
At six feet four and a half inches, Aldous Huxley was perhaps the tallest figure in English letters, his height so striking that contemporaries sometimes viewed him as a freak of nature. British novelist Christopher Isherwood found Huxley “too tall. I felt an enormous zoological separation from him.”
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) was an important twentieth-century writer whose work often explored some of the ‘biggest’ and most important ideas of his day. The following pick of his best books include a work documenting his experiences of drug-taking, classic dystopian fiction, radical utopian vision, and social satires of the ‘roaring ...
