Description
Book SynopsisAldous Huxley was born on 26th July 1894 near Godalming, Surrey. He began writing poetry and short stories in his early twenties, but it was his first novel,
Crome Yellow (1921), which established his literary reputation. This was swiftly followed by
Antic Hay (1923),
Those Barren Leaves (1925) and
Point Counter Point (1928) - bright, brilliant satires in which Huxley wittily but ruthlessly passed judgement on the shortcomings of contemporary society. For most of the 1920s Huxley lived in Italy and an account of his experiences there can be found in Along The Road (1925). The great novels of ideas, including his most famous work
Brave New World (published in 1932 this warned against the dehumanising aspects of scientific and material 'progress') and the pacifist novel
Eyeless in Gaza(1936) were accompanied by a series of wise and brilliant essays, collected in volume form as
Music at Night (1931) and
Ends and Means (1937). In 1937
Trade ReviewA crystal clear and a deeply moving book... Unerringly, Huxley explores the layers of memory, affection and the decline of sexual attraction, asking the unanswerable question of what you do with love after it dies.... his deepest, funniest, most marvellous of novels * Observer *
Sardonically humorous, urbane and exquisite in style * Scotsman *
The play of ideas and theories, moral, psychological and sociological, is profuse and scintillating * Times Literary Supplement *
Eyeless in Gaza embodies Huxley's conclusions about life. Amusing, moving and brilliant, there is no doubting the sincerity and the beauty of this book * Listener *
Brilliant intellectual fireworks * The Times *
