Aldous Huxley Summary

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 int... Read more

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, s... Read more

Among intellectuals Aldous Huxley 's reputation as a novelist flourished in the 1920s. His literary accomplishments span many genres: poetry, essays, plays, journalism, historical studies, travel wor... Read more

For four decades Aldous Huxley was a major figure in the literary mainstream, yet he is now chiefly remembered for a novel that is, by any definition, science fiction. In this respect his position is ... Read more

In the following review of Limbo, originally published in The New Republic in 1920, Gorman compares Huxley's work to Max Beerbohm's. Mr. Aldous Huxley, a new and extremely prepossessing ... Read more

In the review of Mortal Coils below, which was originally published in the New York Sunday Tribune in 1922, Cuppy rejects earlier assessments of this collection as superficial, insisting that Huxley i... Read more

In the following excerpt from his journals, the noted author and critic Bennett generally approves of the characterization in the tales in Little Mexican but says the stories have no proper end and th... Read more

In the following review originally published in the Nation in 1926, Krutch calls “Two or Three Graces” a “grotesquely tragic story” that for all its ironical detachment is ... Read more

In the following study of “Nuns at Luncheon,” Kempton offers two interpretations of the satirical story: as a tale within an anecdote which is a fiction that ends as a polemic, and as a ... Read more

In the following review of Collected Short Stories, Pritchett contends that the short story form was indadequate for Huxley's “great scoldings.” The attraction of the early Huxley... Read more

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 ... Read more

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... Read more

Critical Essay by Frederick J. Hoffman Huxley has often demonstrated in his novels the fact that ideas may possess qualities which are comparable with those which animate persons—and this parti... Read more

Critical Essay by Charlotte Legates [The] paintings of Pieter Brueghel the Elder had a profound influence on the writing of Aldous Huxley. Huxley seems to have been attracted to Brueghel's atti... Read more

Critical Essay by Jerome Meckier Despite the fact that their tone perceptively darkens, Aldous Huxley's first three novels—and for freshness and exuberance they may be his finest comic a... Read more

Aldous Huxley was born July 26, 1894 under somewhat harsh, yet also very promising, circumstances. Throughout his life, Huxley's family, period of time in which he lived and circumstances molded his ... Read more