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Biography

Aldous Leonard Huxley

English author, famed for his work "Brave new World", 1932. A pacifist and friend of D.H. Lawrence. One of his brothers was a renowned physiologist (winner of the nobel price in 1963), the other was an important biologist (general director of the UNESCO 1946-48). His grandfather was a zoologist and in his time an important and early supporter of Darwins theory.

Timeline

26.7.1894 Born in Godalming
1913-15 Oxford
1916 First collection of Poems "The burning wheel"
since 1921 Satiric novels "Crome yellow", "Antic hay", Those barren leaves"
1928 First masterpiece "Point counter Point"
1932 Antiutopia: "Brave new world".
1937 Emmigration to California
1948 "Ape and essence", another (anti-)utopia
1958 "Brave new world revisited"
22.11.1963 Died in Hollywood, California

Bibliography

S. Bedford Aldous Huxley - A biography - 2 volumes London 1973-74
D. Watt Aldous Huxley - The critical heritage London 1975

By Aldeous Huxley

  • The burning wheel, poems, 1916
  • Crome yellow, novel, 1921
  • Antic hay, novel, 1923
  • Those barren leaves, novel, 1925
  • Jesting Pilate, essay, 1926
  • Point counter point, novel, 1928
  • Music at night, and other essays, 1931
  • Brave new world, utopia, 1932
  • Eyeless in Gaza, novel, 1936
  • After many a summer, novel, 1939
  • The perennial philosophy, 1945
  • Ape and essence, utopia, 1948
  • Themes and variations, essay, 1950
  • The doors of perception, 1954
  • The genius and the goddess, novel, 1955
  • Brave new world revisited, comment, 1958
  • Island, utopia, 1962
Editions
  • Selected poems, 1925
  • Collected works, 1949-77 (36 volumes)
  • Letters, 1969
  • Collected short stories, 1973

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