Description: Further DetailsTitle: Complete EssaysCondition: NewSubtitle: Aldous Huxley, 1920-1925ISBN-10: 1566633222EAN: 9781566633222ISBN: 9781566633222Publisher: Ivan R Dee, IncFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 10/30/2000Description: These first two volumes of a projected five, in preparation for several years, begin a major publishing venture, collecting the complete essays of one of the giants of modern English prose and of social commentary in our time. The first two volumes span the most productive period of Huxley's career. Volume I begins with his essays for Gilbert Murray's Athenaeum and his music essays for the New Westminster Gazette. Volume II continues through the 1920s and includes his controversial essays on India and the empire in "Jesting Pilate." The essays of both volumes range from nuanced assessments of art and architecture to political analyses, history, science, religion, and art, and a newly discovered series on music. Wide-ranging, allusive, and witty, they are informed by the probing skepticism of a highly educated and ironically incisive member of the English upper middle class. Huxley's fascination with the codes and conventions of European culture, his growing apprehensions about the menacing collapse of the European political order, and his awareness of the impact of science and technology on the post-Versailles world of England, France, Germany, and the United States form the basis for his critique. His subjects overlap with the satirical novels he wrote during the period between the wars, culminating in Point Counter Point and Brave New World. At their best, these essays stand among the finest examples of the genre in modern literature.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 240mmItem Length: 166mmItem Width: 39mmItem Weight: 880gAuthor: Aldous HuxleyContributor: James Sexton (Edited by), Robert S. Baker (Edited by)Genre: Literary CriticismBook Series: Complete Essays of Aldous HuxleyRelease Year: 2000 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Complete Essays
Title: Complete Essays
Subtitle: Aldous Huxley, 1920-1925
ISBN-10: 1566633222
EAN: 9781566633222
ISBN: 9781566633222
Release Date: 10/30/2000
Release Year: 2000
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Contributor: Robert S. Baker (Edited by)
Series: Complete Essays of Aldous Huxley
Book Title: Complete Essays, 1920-1925
Number of Pages: 510 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Dee Publisher, Ivan R.
Item Height: 1.5 in
Publication Year: 2000
Topic: General, Essays, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Literary Criticism, Literary Collections
Item Weight: 0 Oz
Item Length: 9.5 in
Author: Huxley Aldous
Book Series: Complete Essays of Aldous Huxley Ser.
Item Width: 6.5 in
Format: Hardcover
