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by Laura Archera Huxley
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by Aldous Huxley
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by George Orwell
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by James Gleick
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This biography reveals the origins of Huxley's light but decisive literary touch. It came from a fascination with science (especially alternative science) which he inherited from his famous evolutionist grandfather, Thomas Henry Huxley. And it came from Huxley's own exposure to the wry iconoclasm of the Bloomsbury crowd in the years around the First World War. Murray charts the life of this latter-day Victorian gentleman of letters with pace and insight.
Huxley was always on the move, flitting between Italy, Paris, London and California. Beautifully dressed, he seems to have changed his ideas as often as his clothes, flirting with French symbolism, Oswald Mosley's fascism, Walt Disney and LSD. Like his contemporary Bertrand Russell, his views on everything were sought out by everybody. And, inevitably, his sex life was as busy and as free as his intellectual imagination.
Nicholas Murray passes up the ample opportunities to debunk Huxley's often naïve and snobbish pronouncements, and instead offers a sympathetic account of a man beset by poor eyesight, emotional insecurity and always in search of a brave new world of his own. --Miles Taylor
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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'This excellent biography has come at the right time' - Jeanette Winterson, The Times * 'Generous and intelligent biography' - J.G. Ballard, Guardian * 'A richly detailed, thoroughly sympathetic portrait' - Sunday Herald
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