Complete Essays: Aldous Huxley, 1930-1935 by Huxley, Aldous
Complete Essays: Aldous Huxley, 1930-1935 by Huxley, Aldous

Complete Essays: Aldous Huxley, 1930-1935

This third volume of a projected six reinforces Huxley's stature as one of the most acute and...
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Complete Essays: Aldous Huxley, 1930-1935 by Huxley, Aldous

Complete Essays: Aldous Huxley, 1930-1935

$111.53
Complete Essays: Aldous Huxley, 1930-1935 by Huxley, Aldous

Complete Essays: Aldous Huxley, 1930-1935

$111.53
Author: Aldous Huxley
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
This third volume of a projected six reinforces Huxley's stature as one of the most acute and informed observers of the social and ideological trends of the years between the world wars. It contains the important collection of essays "Music at Night" as well as the majority of Huxley's journalistic writing for the Hearst newspapers in the United States and for a variety of British periodicals such as Nash's Pall Mall Magazine, the Evening Standard, and Time and Tide. Much of the attraction of the Hearst essays lies in their vivid period detail: references to the raucous voices of Nazi broadcasters, speeches by Roosevelt and Stalin, Soviet five-year plans, and the effects of the Great Depression combine to provide a rich context for Huxley's increasingly active role in organized pacifism and his sense of standing on the threshold of a new era. The essays of "Music at Night" define this trend as "the New Romanticism," a celebration of Enlightenment modernity and an excessive faith in instrumental reason and applied science. Huxley was both intrigued by and suspicious of state planning and centralized bureaucratic authority. The essays in Volume III (and the volume to follow) register his growing ambivalence about the role of technocracy and science in an era of experimentation in the concentration of executive and legislative power. At their best, Huxley's essays stand among the finest examples of the genre in modern literature. "He was among the few writers who...played with ideas so freely, so gaily, with such virtuosity, that the responsive reader...was dazzled and excited."--Isaiah Berlin.

Author: Aldous Huxley
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Published: 07/03/2001
Pages: 653
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.39lbs
Size: 9.76h x 6.62w x 1.92d
ISBN: 9781566633475


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2001 pg. 562
Publishers Weekly 05/14/2001 pg. 72
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2001 pg. 230

About the Author
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) was one of the most important novelists of the twentieth century. Robert S. Baker is professor of literature at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and author of The Dark Historic Page and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. James Sexton teaches English at Camosun College in British Columbia.
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