Complete Essays

In this fourth volume of a projected six, Huxley registers his deep misgivings about the course of history in the late 1930s as the world moved toward a second global war. Many of his essays reflect his continuing interest in the conventions of popular culture as well as the philosophy of science and history, particularly as they inform developments in art and politics.

“Perusing Volume One, I was struck by the sensitivity and the unerring perception in these unknown reviews, ultimately my most enjoyable reading of the year.”

-- Robert Craft, conductor and writer on music Times Literary Supplement, (Books Of The Year, Dec.)
An important and admirable publishing event. Atlantic Monthly
The editors have done their job with commendable thoroughness. -- P.N. Furbank Times Literary Supplement
Huxley’s political writing is often deliberately perverse. -- Leo Carey The New Yorker
Much to enjoy in these volumes...they are important as a document and a window on to the stage in the evolution of his mind. Economist
He writes with an easy assurance and a command of classical and modern cross-references. -- Christopher Hitchens Los Angeles Times

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.

In this fourth volume of a projected six, Huxley registers his deep misgivings about the course of history in the late 1930s as the world moved toward a second global war. Many of his essays reflect his continuing interest in the conventions of popular culture as well as the philosophy of science and history, particularly as they inform developments in art and politics.

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