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Aldous Huxley
Born
in Godalming, Surrey, England, The United Kingdom July 26, 1894
Died
November 22, 1963
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Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives, and poems.
Born into the prominent Huxley family, he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with a degree in English literature. Early in his career, he published short stories and poetry and edited the literary magazine Oxford Poetry, before going on to publish travel writing, satire, and screenplays. He spent the latter part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death. By the end of his life, Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times, and was eAldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives, and poems.
Born into the prominent Huxley family, he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with a degree in English literature. Early in his career, he published short stories and poetry and edited the literary magazine Oxford Poetry, before going on to publish travel writing, satire, and screenplays. He spent the latter part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death. By the end of his life, Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times, and was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 1962.
Huxley was a pacifist. He grew interested in philosophical mysticism, as well as universalism, addressing these subjects in his works such as The Perennial Philosophy (1945), which illustrates commonalities between Western and Eastern mysticism, and The Doors of Perception (1954), which interprets his own psychedelic experience with mescaline. In his most famous novel Brave New World (1932) and his final novel Island (1962), he presented his visions of dystopia and utopia, respectively.
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Aldous Huxley Average rating:3.99
· 2,471,225 ratings · 78,871 reviews ·971 distinct works •Similar authors
 | Brave New World 3.98 avg rating — 2,088,231 ratings — published 1932 —106 editions | |
 | Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited by 4.16 avg rating — 171,949 ratings — published 1960 —17 editions | |
 | The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell 3.90 avg rating — 75,982 ratings — published 1956 —315 editions | |
 | Island 3.85 avg rating — 36,212 ratings — published 1962 —216 editions | |
 | Brave New World Revisited 3.94 avg rating — 22,694 ratings — published 1958 | |
 | Point Counter Point 3.86 avg rating — 12,272 ratings — published 1928 —4 editions | |
 | Crome Yellow 3.42 avg rating — 8,973 ratings — published 1921 —681 editions | |
 | The Perennial Philosophy 4.12 avg rating — 6,532 ratings — published 1945 —161 editions | |
 | Ape and Essence 3.72 avg rating — 6,335 ratings — published 1948 —2 editions | |
 | The Devils of Loudun 3.86 avg rating — 3,587 ratings — published 1952 —143 editions |
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“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley,Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929
― Aldous Huxley,Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929
“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
― Aldous Huxley,Brave New World
― Aldous Huxley,Brave New World
“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
― Aldous Huxley,Brave New World
― Aldous Huxley,Brave New World
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