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| 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. 2.3 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 so... summary from source:
 Biography of Aldous (Leonard) Huxley
11850 words, approx. 39.5 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 distinguis... summary from source:
 Biography of Aldous Huxley
6612 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," Pritch...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Island Information
1,877 words, approx. 6 pages
Island ( ISBN 0-06-008549-5 ) is the final book by the great English novelist and essayist Aldous Huxley , published in 1962 . It is the account of Will Farnaby, a cynical journalist who is shipwrecked on the fictional island of Pala. Island is...
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12/31/2006: 286 words, approx. 1 pagesArea: 28,370 sq km (10,954 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 482,000Capital: Honiara Chief of state: Queen Elizabeth II, represented by Governor-General Sir Nathaniel Waena Head of government: Prime Ministers Sir Allan Kemakeza, Snyder Rini from April 20, and, from May 4, Manasseh Sogavare The year 2006... summary from source:
Creators.com Long Island Blues
1/23/2008: 835 words, approx. 3 pagesDEAR SUSAN: Let me start by saying I'm all for meeting men in groups that share a common interest. Good idea. However, you may not realize the dynamic in the Long Island region. There are NO YOUNG SINGLE MEN in these groups. They are frequented...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Jerome Meckier
1,990 words, approx. 7 pages
[Island] embodies a collection of the right responses to problems that the brave new world handled badly. But there is even more to the novel than that. Unlike News from Nowhere, Looking Backward, and other positive views of the future, Island can be defended as a reasonably complex novel in which a would-be utopian's attempt at optimism is challenged by the possibility that his characters inhabit a Manichean universe…. Unlike most utopians, Huxley tries to confront several inescapably negativ... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Robert E. Kuehn
1,089 words, approx. 4 pages
Aldous Huxley's career resembles that of several other eminent twentieth-century writers: he began as an enfant terrible and ended as a sage…. Each of his novels, from Crome Yellow through Island, is indisputably modern, even though the later books differ so radically from the earlier ones. Huxley seems to have been born mistrustful of received attitudes and disdainful of those creeds that provided his forebears with a sense of order, continuity, and spiritual composure. His intellectual tempe... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Donald J. Watt
1,082 words, approx. 4 pages
Island (1962), Huxley's last novel, presents as many facets of his comprehensive vision for man and community as he was able to commit to print before his death in 1963…. The book is Huxley's solemn and, in many ways, unique remedy for psychic atrophy and the specter of the bomb in the world of the 1960's. (p. 149) Huxley's fairly complex vision stems from his conviction that any operative ideal would have to be based on a syncretic approach to the problem of existence. (p...
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Island by Aldous Huxley | |
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