Book review: Aldous Huxley: An English Intellectual: Looking on the bright side

From: Scotland on Sunday | Date: March 31, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Aldous Huxley: An English Intellectual by Nicholas Murray

Little Brown, 20 pounds

ALDOUS Huxley did not invent the word 'dystopia', meaning an imaginary place where everything is as bad as possible. But in his 1932 novel Brave New World, he created one of the truly memorable 20th-century dystopias, which is also one of the most frighteningly pessimistic.

Huxley's childhood might be viewed as a kind of mini-dystopia in its own right. He was born into a literary family in 1894, but his mother died suddenly when he was 10-years-old. Huxley was sent to Eton, where an eye infection sustained at ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

Depraved New World?; 70 years ago, Aldous Huxley published his vision of a Britain where babies were mass produced and society was controlled through drugs and sexual pleasure. With 'designer babies' in the news, just how accurate was he?
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England) ; ...the great novel Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, which was published...elite govern by fear, in Huxley's Brave New World the rulers use scientific...state-sanctioned drug in Brave New World is 'Soma', which, as Huxley later wrote, was an...
Aldous Huxley.
Magazine article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction ; ...all its horror. --Aldous Huxley, Farcical History of Richard...punished and reformed. --Huxley, Vulgarity in Literature...people know the name Aldous Huxley in connection with his landmark 1932 novel Brave New World. Few know much more than this and that at one time Huxley was one of ...
NBC GIVES HUXLEY BRAVE, NEW SPIN.(Spotlight)(Review)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) ; ...adaptation of Brave New World, Aldous Huxley's still widely...higher level, Brave New World does a competent job of displaying Huxley's futurist view...did you know that Huxley died on Nov. 22...a sad and scary new world. CAPTION(S): Color...
Aldous Huxley. Collected Essays, Volume III: 1930-1935.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction ; ...monograph on Brave New World) and James Sexton...collect all of Huxley's essays. The first...context for Brave New World, and as early as 1929 Huxley had begun to express...one of the ways Huxley satirized contemporary...were actually not new at all but merely...
The brave new guru Aldous Huxley knew both the joys and dangers of mind control, says Jonathan Bate
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London ; ...it actually goes "Aldous Huxley died." It was, as a matter of fact, the same day. Huxley finds his place in a rock...excellent new biography, Huxley's encounter with mescaline...gulped down his laudanum. Huxley went on to write a book...The Doors. The irony of Huxley's becoming a ...
ENCOUNTER: ORWELL AND HUXLEY; Two prophets of our dystopian new world DJ Taylor and Nicholas Murray, biographers of Orwell and Huxley, are joined by Alastair Niven to compare `1984' and `Brave New World'
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London ; ...research, it seems that Huxley, who was always deeply...things he predicted in Brave New World. To me it's astonishing...was published in 1949, Huxley wrote to Orwell saying...Predictions I Have Made" and put Huxley on one side and Orwell on the other, Huxley would score far ...
Fearfully Good `Brave New World'
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post ; ...course, on Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel, "Brave New World" airs tomorrow...on Channel 4. Huxley might not immediately...spirit. "Brave New World" is an offbeat...as witty as Huxley, maybe, but...but "Brave New World" is. Huxley would be pleased...
The provocations of Lenina in Huxley's Brave New World.(how Aldous Huxley's misogyny affects characterization)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: International Fiction Review ; ...everywhere evident in Huxley's novels written...problem in Brave New World (1932). A careful...misogyny careened Huxley into contradicting...the men in Brave New World have a spiritual...spiritually and that Huxley's misogyny has...his readers. In Huxley's best-known, ...
NEW WORLD DISCOVERING EXPANSION BRINGS NEW PROBLEMS
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ) ; 00-00-0000 NEW WORLD DISCOVERING EXPANSION BRINGS NEW PROBLEMS...Editions -- Sunday Less than a year ago, New World Restaurant Group was on a roll, reigning...larger rival. But now, Eatontown-based New World finds itself in a less palatable situation...
Mr. Huxley Takes a Trip
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post ; HUXLEY IN HOLLYWOOD;By David King...divided a reputation as Aldous Huxley. During roughly the first...Point Counter Point and Brave New World, made him the peer of Evelyn...circumvent the stereotype of Huxley in the Sky with Diamonds...history at the University of New Mexico, has run to ...

Find more facts and information related to the article "Book review: Aldous Huxley: An English ..."