Aldous Huxley
An English Intellectual
$50.29
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
21 December 2003
Summary
The grandson of biologist T. H. Huxley, Aldous Huxley had a privileged background and was educated at Eton and Oxford despite an eye infection that left him nearly blind. Having learned braille his eyesight then improved enough for him to start writing, and by the 1920s he had become a fashionable figure, producing witty and daring novels like Crome Yellow (1921), Antic Hay (1923) and Point Counter Point (1928). But it is as the author of his celebrated portrayal of…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349113487 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349113483 |
| Author: | Nicholas Murray |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 21 December 2003 |
| Weight: | 346g |
| Dimensions: | 133mm x 201mm x 35mm |
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This excellent biography has come at the right time - Jeanette Winterson, THE TIMES
Generous and intelligent biography - J.G. Ballard, GUARDIANA richly detailed, thoroughly sympathetic portrait - SUNDAY HERALD[Murray] provides an appropriately multifaceted portrait of Huxley, emphasising the continuities in his life as well as the radical open-mindedness that informed it. - SUNDAY TIMESAbout The Author
Nicholas Murray
Nicholas Murray was born in Liverpool in 1952. He has written acclaimed biographies of Bruce Chatwin, Matthew Arnold and the poet Andrew Marvell. He is married and lives in the Welsh Marches.
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