Aldous Huxley by Sybille Bedford
An outstanding book.--James Sexton A welcome and necessary update of the life of one of the twentieth century's most provocative intellectuals.--Dana Sawyer A rich and lucid account of Aldous Huxley's life and work. Aldous Huxley was one of the twentieth century's most prescient thinkers. This new biography is a rich and lucid account that charts the different phases of Huxley's career: from the early satirist who depicted the glamorous despair of the postwar generation, to the committed pacifist of the 1930s, the spiritual seeker of the 1940s, the psychedelic sage of the 1950s--who affirmed the spiritual potential of mescaline and LSD--to the New Age prophet of Island. While Huxley is still best known as the author of Brave New World, Jake Poller argues that it is The Perennial Philosophy, The Doors of Perception, and Island--Huxley's blueprint for a utopian society--that have had the most cultural impact.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 | 9780394465876 |
| ISBN 10 | 0394465873 |
| Title | Aldous Huxley |
| Author | Sybille Bedford |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Random House Trade |
| Year published | 1974-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 769 |
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