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Aldous Huxley

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Biography

Name: Aldous Leonard Huxley
Birth Date: July 26, 1894
Death Date: November 22, 1963
Place of Birth: Godalming, England
Place of Death: Los Angeles, California, United States
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: author, critic

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Biography of Aldous Leonard Huxley
684 words, approx. 2 pages
The novels, short stories, and essays of the English author Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894-1963) explore crucial questions of science, religion, and philosophy. Aldous Huxley was born into a family of intellectual prominence. His father, Leonard, was the...
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Biography of Aldous (Leonard) Huxley
11,850 words, approx. 40 pages
Tall, witty, charismatic, conspicuously handsome, a polymath, Aldous Huxley was an intellectual lighthouse for over forty years. He wrote poetry; drama; screenplays; journalism; biography; social, scientific, and intellectual history; he was a...
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Biography of Aldous Huxley
6,612 words, approx. 22 pages
Novelist and essayist Aldous Huxley has been described by New Statesman contributor V. S. Pritchett as "that rare being--the prodigy, the educable young man, the perennial asker of unusual questions." Defining Huxley as a hybrid "artist-educator,"...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Huxley, Aldous Summary
1,711 words, approx. 6 pages
Aldous Huxley, 1894–1963. The novels, short stories, and essays of the English author Huxley explore crucial questions of science,...
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Aldous Huxley Information
4,320 words, approx. 14 pages
Aldous Leonard Huxley (July 26, 1894 – November 22, 1963) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. He spent the latter part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his...


News and Journals
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Wife of Aldous Huxley dies at 96
12/16/2007: 344 words, approx. 1 pages
Laura Archera Huxley, the widow of "Brave New World" author Aldous Huxley, who worked to preserve his legacy for nearly half a century after his death while authoring her own books, has died. She was 96.Huxley died of cancer Thursday night at her Hollywood Hills...
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Author wife of Aldous Huxley dies at 96
12/16/2007: 344 words, approx. 1 pages
Laura Archera Huxley, the widow of "Brave New World" author Aldous Huxley, who worked to preserve his legacy for nearly half a century after his death while authoring her own books, has died. She was 96.Huxley died of cancer Thursday night at her Hollywood Hills...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Maria Schubert
8,163 words, approx. 27 pages
In the following essay, Schubert maintains Huxley's short fiction is mainly concerned with humans' inescapable predestinatio, and that the predominant stylistic device he uses to express this is irony.
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Kulwant Singh Gill
5,382 words, approx. 18 pages
In the following essay, Gill discusses Aldous Huxley's experimentations with LSD as a means of reaching spiritual enlightenment, concluding that Huxley ultimately failed because of his inability to overcome his "intellectual baggage. "
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Critical Essay by Charles M. Holmes
4,152 words, approx. 14 pages
In the following excerpt from his full-length study of Huxley's works, Holmes discusses the early story “Eupompus Gave Splendour to Art by Numbers” and notes its autobiographical elements.
 
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Essay Grade: 94%
Aldous Huxley Paradigm Essay
2,175 words, approx. 7 pages
Huxley is, and will always be one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. His works have been read and reread countless times, and his lessons during the first part of his life were excellent. This essay recounts his life and many of his works.


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