Aldous Huxley: A biography - Hardcover

Bedford, Sybille

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394465873 ISBN 13: 9780394465876

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974

Synopsis

Grandson of the scientific philosopher Thomas Henry Huxley, great-nephew of Matthew Arnold, Aldous Huxley was born at the very heart of England's humanist elite in its golden days - a complicated, brilliant, charming boy who, despite almost total loss of sight at 16, became a cultural hero of the decades after World War I. From the iconoclastic wit of novels such as "Crome Yellow" and "Point Counter Point" in the 1920s, his literary career changed direction with "Brave New World" in 1932. This is his biography.

About this title

From the Publisher:

In this dazzling conjunction of subject and author, the great English novelist Aldous Huxley is brought wholly alive in a magnificent full-scale biography by the brilliant English novelist Sybille Bedford.

About the Author:

Sybille Bedford is the author of A Legacy, A Favorite of the Gods, Jigsaw, and A Compass Error, all novels published to international praise. Her nonfiction works include The Sudden View, The Trial of Dr. Adams, and The Faces of Justice. She lives in London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Publication date: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0394465873
• ISBN 13: 9780394465876
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 769