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Cynical realism—it’s the intelligent man’s best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation. - Aldous Huxley Attribution: Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), British novelist. John Barnack, in Time Must Have a Stop, ch. 5 (1944). John Barnack’s jibe at his hedonist brother Eustace for not taking sufficient interest in contemporary political movements.

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Aldous Huxley

Titles by Aldous Huxley:

• Brave New World
• Island

eNotes:

• End of Utopia: A Study of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (Brave New World)
• Aldous Huxley (Brave New World)

Salem on History:

• Aldous Huxley

Encyclopedia:

• Huxley, Aldous Leonard (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)

Salem on Literature:

• Aldous Huxley (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Aldous Huxley (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
• The Essays of Aldous Huxley (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
• Aldous Huxley (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
• Aldous Huxley (Magill’s Choice: Notable British Novelists)
• Aldous Huxley (Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th Century)

Literary Criticism:

• Huxley, Aldous (Short Story Criticism)
• Huxley, Aldous (Vol. 18) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Huxley, Aldous (Vol. 11) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Huxley, Aldous (Vol. 5) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Huxley, Aldous (Vol. 8) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Huxley, Aldous (Vol. 3) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Huxley, Aldous (Vol. 1) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Huxley, Aldous (Vol. 4) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Aldous Huxley dies
• Aldous Huxley publishes Brave New World
• Aldous Huxley is born