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- After Many a Summer Dies the Swan (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
- Eyeless in Gaza (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
- Jacob’s Hands (Magill Book Reviews)
- The Gioconda Smile (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
- Brave New World (Magill Book Reviews)
- Brave New World (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Crome Yellow (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Point Counter Point (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Ape and Essence (Magill's Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
- Brave New World (Magill's Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
- Island (Magill's Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
- The Science-Fiction Novel (Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition)
- The Science-Fiction Story (Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
- Theory of Short Fiction (Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
- Point Counter Point (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Crome Yellow (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Brave New World (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- The Essays of Aldous Huxley (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
- Young Archimedes (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
- Origins and Development of the Novel, 1890-1980 (Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition)
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- Author: Aldous Huxley
Biography
Aldous Leonard Huxley, the spokesman of the so-called literary modernists, is one of the best chroniclers of the generation that came to maturity between World Wars I and II, especially of the artistic and intellectual elements of that generation. He was born into an eminent family, which bequeathed to him several strains of Victorian intellectualism. His father, Leonard Huxley, a professor of Greek, was the son of Thomas Henry Huxley, the biologist and chief defender of Charles Darwin’s theories. His mother, Julia Huxley, was the niece of Matthew Arnold. Huxley’s...
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