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Bezig met laden... Aldous Huxley: A Biography (origineel 2002; editie 2003)door Nicholas Murray
Informatie over het werkAldous Huxley door Nicholas Murray (2002)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Well researched and fully documented, this is an essential resource for anyone investigating Huxley's life. At a few points, it appears to offer some valid correctives to Sybille Bedford's better-known biography. As a book, however, it's dry as dust, with short, almost cursory-seeming chapters, a prose style so simple as to be boring, and an overall impression of Cliff Notes. The author has contributed significantly to the study of Huxley's classic 20th-century life, but is unlikely to excite anyone into wanting to know more. ( ) This book goes fairly rapidly through Huxley's life. This may be at least in part because of the loss of Huxley's papers and letters in the fire that destroyed his home in California. But the reader gets a good sense for the goodness of the man (with a few pecadillos), the diversity of his interests (poetry, literature, science, sociology, travel, eastern religion and new ideas) and the challenges posed by his damaged eyes. He was the co-inventor of the term psychedelic. I like his motto, aun aprendo ("I am still learning"), and that in his younger days he would take encyclopedias with him to read on his travels. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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The son 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 a nightmare future society, Brave New World (1932), that Huxley is most remembered. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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