Complete Essays, Vol. 5: 1939-1956
📄 Viewing lite version
Full site ›
Book Details
Author(s)Aldous Huxley
PublisherIvan R. Dee
ISBN / ASIN1566634415
ISBN-139781566634410
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank1,655,900
CategoryLiterary Collections
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description ▲
In this fifth of six volumes in a major publishing enterprise, Huxley continues to explore the role of science and technology in modern culture, and seeks a final level of foundational Truth that might provide the basis for his growing interest in religious mysticism. His philosophy of history took its final form in this period. At their best, Huxley's essays stand among the finest examples of the genre in modern literature. "A remarkable publishing event...beautifully produced and authoritatively edited."―Jeffrey Hart. "He writes with an easy assurance and a command of classical and modern cross-references,"―Christopher Hitchens, Los Angeles Times. "There is much to enjoy in these volumes...they are important as a document of his times, and of a window on to a stage in the evolution of his mind."―Economist. "You have to marvel at the range of [Huxley's] interests and the intelligence with which he explores them....What we experience in this high journalism is a man of intelligence, sensibility, and formidable erudition engaging his era and struggling for equilibrium while sharing the widespread perception that something ghastly has happened to European civilization...."―Washington Times
Similar Products ▼
- Complete Essays, Vol. 4: 1936-1938
- Complete Essays, Vol. 6: 1956-1963 and Supplement, 1920-1948
- Complete Essays, Vol. 3: 1930-1935
- Complete Essays, Vol. 1: 1920-1925
- Complete Essays, Vol. 2: 1926-1929
- Collected Short Stories
- The Autobiography of Charles Darwin: 1809-1882
- Moksha: Aldous Huxley's Classic Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience
- The Victims' Revolution: The Rise of Identity Studies and the Closing of the Liberal Mind
- The Genius and the Goddess: A Novel
More Books in Literary Collections
Natural History Of The Honeybee: Or Are Bees Reflex Ma…
View
The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses
View
Death's Showcase: The Power of Image in Contemporary D…
View
Touching the Body: History, Language, & African Caribb…
View
Notes to the Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe S…
View
Notes to the Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe S…
View
Some Kind of Beautiful Signal (Two Lines World Writing…
View
Junonesia Or Women Rescued: A Treatise Relating To Pre…
View
On the Impending Bengal Famine; How It Will Be Met and…
View