Aldous Huxley by Sybille Bedford

Aldous Huxley by Sybille Bedford

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.

Sybille Bedford was born in the German city of Charlottenburg in 1911 and raised in Italy, England, and France. Her first book, A Visit to Don Otavio, was released in 1953, and she has since authored eight more, including Jigsaw, A Legacy, A Favourite of the Gods, and A Compass Error, as well as famous chronicles of criminal trials and other judicial events, and an acclaimed biography of her mentor Aldous Huxley. She was the vice president of English PEN and one of the nine Companions of Literature in the United Kingdom. Bedford died in February 2006 in London, where she had lived for many years.

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ISBN 13	9780333585092
ISBN 10	0333585097
Title	Aldous Huxley
Author	Sybille Bedford
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pan Macmillan
Year published	1993-03-26
Number of pages	824
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