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Aldous Huxley


Born
in Godalming, Surrey, England, The United Kingdom
July 26, 1894

Died
November 22, 1963

Genre
Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction

Influences
H.G. Wells, William Blake, Dickens, Krishnamurti, Julian Huxley, Thom ...more


Brave New World (1932), best-known work of British writer Aldous Leonard Huxley, paints a grim picture of a scientifically organized utopia.

This most prominent member of the famous Huxley family of England spent the part of his life from 1937 in Los Angeles in the United States until his death. Best known for his novels and wide-ranging output of essays, he also published short stories, poetry, travel writing, and film stories and scripts. Through novels and essays, Huxley functioned as an examiner and sometimes critic of social mores, norms and ideals. Spiritual subjects, such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism, interested Huxley, a humanist, towards the end of his life. People widely acknowledged him as one of the pre-emin ...more

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Brave New World
3.99 avg rating — 1,926,308 ratings — published 1932 — 581 editions
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Brave New World and Brave N...
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4.16 avg rating — 168,083 ratings — published 1958 — 86 editions
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The Doors of Perception & H...
3.91 avg rating — 70,432 ratings — published 1954 — 2 editions
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Island
3.85 avg rating — 33,246 ratings — published 1962 — 202 editions
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Brave New World Revisited
3.94 avg rating — 20,753 ratings — published 1958 — 189 editions
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Point Counter Point
3.87 avg rating — 11,904 ratings — published 1928 — 98 editions
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Crome Yellow
3.42 avg rating — 8,488 ratings — published 1921 — 685 editions
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The Perennial Philosophy
4.12 avg rating — 6,053 ratings — published 1945 — 134 editions
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Ape and Essence
3.74 avg rating — 6,018 ratings — published 1948 — 113 editions
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The Devils of Loudun
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“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929
tags: fact, ignorance, truth
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“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
tags: reading, words, writing
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“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
tags: brave-new-world, hunger, thirst, yearning
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