The Essays of Aldous Huxley (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Aldous Huxley
- First Published: 1923
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Twentieth century, Nature, Psychology or psychologists, Religion, India or East Indian people
Critical Evaluation:
Aldous Huxley wrote essays on a great variety of subjects: on nature, travel, literature, love and sex, psychology, music, painting, and even politics. Yet the division of his essays into groups can be misleading. In many of his studies the ostensible subject is only the point of a wedge and exists as the focus of opinions which are more or less contingent. Some of these opinions, it must be admitted, are in the nature of prejudices, and they are introduced into the essays at some peril.
For example, one of his essays on India, superficially an...
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