Dec 24, 2009

Aldous Huxley | Aldous Huxley

Other Literary Forms

Besides the novel, Aldous Huxley wrote in every other major literary form. He published several volumes of essays and won universal acclaim as a first-rate essayist. He also wrote poetry, plays, short stories, biographies, and travelogues.

Achievements

Huxley achieved fame as a satirical novelist and essayist in the decade following World War I. In his article “Aldous Huxley: The Ultra-Modern Satirist,” published in The Nation in 1926, Edwin Muir observed, “No other writer of our time has built up a serious reputation so...

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