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Biography. Aldous Huxley was born in 1894 in Godalming, Surrey. His famous ancestors included his grandfather, T H Huxley, one of the first supporters of Charles Darwin; his great-grandfather, Dr Arnold, Headmaster of Rugby School; Arnold’s son, Matthew, the poet and essayist; Arnold’s granddaughter, Mrs Humphry Ward, a famous novelist in her time, though now long since forgotten and more ...
Brave New World, a science-fiction novel by Aldous Huxley, published in 1932. It depicts a technologically advanced futuristic society. John the Savage, a boy raised outside that society, is brought to the World State utopia and soon realizes the flaws in its system. He rebels but fails, driven to suicide.
Aldous Huxley. Writer: A Woman's Vengeance. Aldous Leonard Huxley was born on July 26, 1894, at Laleham in Godalming, Surrey, England. He was the third of four children. His brother Julian Huxley was a biologist known for his theories of evolution. His grandfather, named Thomas Henry Huxley, was a naturalist known as "Darwin's Bulldog." His father, named Leonard Huxley, was a writer. His ...
24 de mar. de 2003 · A mordant satirist and impresario of uncomfortable ideas, Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) remains best known for Brave New World, an early 1930s look into a grim future. Murray, biographer of (among others) Huxley's great-uncle Matthew Arnold, evokes the writer rather than the writings. Restless in body as well as in mind, Huxley never lived in one ...
The curious career of Aldous Huxley. - Aldous Huxley Spanish Site - MeetUp.com, site to to meetup with other fans of Huxley around the world. - Philosophy Forums. General discussions on philosophical matters. - Aldous Huxley's Americanization of the Brave New World typescript - Critical Essay by Jerome Meckler.
Aldous Huxley. Biography by Ally Findley. Aldous Huxley was born in Godalming, Surrey, England on July 26, 1894. His father was Leonard Huxley, a teacher and editor of Cornhill Magazine, and his mother was Julia Arnold, who founded Prior’s Field School (and was the niece of famous poet and essayist Matthew Arnold).
Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning that ...
