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Perhaps it’s good for one to suffer.... Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life? - Aldous Huxley Attribution: Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), British novelist. Casimir Lypiatt, in Antic Hay, ch. 6 (1923). Casimir Lypiatt is Huxley’s portrait of a self-important and self-deluded artist, said to be modelled on the unsuccessful romantic painter, Benjamin Haydon.

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Aldous Huxley

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Salem on History:

• Aldous Huxley

eNotes:

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

Encyclopedia:

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

Salem on Literature:

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

Literary Criticism:

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

Calendar of Literary Facts:

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