COLLECTED ESSAYS

by Aldous Huxley ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

Wherever Aldous Huxley looks and he looks far and deep, he casts the shadow of a man intent in his search for the nature and source of the real. In this collection of essays drawn from more than three decades of prolific literary activity, Huxley goes bravely into every avenue of human enterprise. Painting, history, music, politics, psychology, morals, theology, love, sex, all are here, all surveyed by the urbane and erudite glance of Huxley the writer and embraced by the ardent caress of Huxley, the totally involved human being. At every turn problems are raised -- What is the true nature of the lover? What transpires between man and woman during coition? Which is the crucial historical moment? What is the nature of sanity? What determines an artist? What can be learned from cats, travel, and narcotics? And for every problem, Huxley presents, at least, a tentative answer, based on his curious breed of humanism, Buddhism, Lawrenconian transcendentalism, and his own liberal experience. Abashed with the shortcomings of his fellow man, Huxley is also stirred deeply by his potential ability to reach that enlightened point at which he is able unflinchingly to act in the true capacity of his being. Permeated with the wit and daring which have made Huxley's novels so popular, these essays will be read with the enjoyment with which one relishes a probing conversation with an enlightened and prodigal friend.

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ISBN: 1171646011

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Publisher: Harper

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1959

Categories: NONFICTION