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Aldous Huxley

  • Aldous Leonard Huxley
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Date of birth
1894-07-26
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Godalming
Date of death
1963-11-22
Place of death
Los Angeles

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Aldous Leonard Huxley ( AWL-dəs; 26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives, and poems.

Born into the prominent Huxley family, he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with a degree in English literature. Early in his career, he published short stories and poetry and edited the literary magazine Oxford Poetry, before going on to publish travel writing, satire, and screenplays. He spent the latter part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death. By the end of his life, Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times, and was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 1962.

Huxley was a pacifist. He grew interested in philosophical mysticism, as well as universalism, addressing these subjects in his works such as The Perennial Philosophy (1945), which illustrates commonalities between Western and Eastern mysticism, and The Doors of Perception (1954), which interprets his own psychedelic experience with mescaline. In his most famous novel Brave New World (1932) and his final novel Island (1962), he presented his visions of dystopia and utopia, respectively.

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English writer and philosopher.

Last modified: 2023-02-04 (revision #112792)

Editions

NameFormatISBNRelease Date
Those Barren LeaveseBook?2022-03-03
Schöne neue Welt: Ein Roman der Zukunft (Fischer Bücherei 26)Paperback3-436-00037-X1971-02
Schöne neue Welt: Ein Roman der Zukunft (Fischer Taschenbuch 26)Paperback3-596-20026-11994-05
Brave New WorldHardcover97803757123642013-09-27
EilandPaperback3-492-10358-81987-02
Crome YelloweBook?2021-04-28
Nach vielen SommernPaperback?1959-04
Antic HayeBook?2019-12-11
The Rest Cure / Erholsame Tage: ErzählungPaperback3-423-09175-41981-04
Kontrapunkt des Lebens (dtv 1158)Paperback3-423-01158-01976-05
Kontrapunkt des Lebens (rororo 532/533)Paperback?1963
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