Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), the world-famous author of BRAVE NEW
WORLD, was one of the great literary visionaries of the 20th
century. The grandson of Thomas H, Huxley (Darwin's famous
defender), he was born in England and educated at Eton and Oxford.
He traveled widely in his youth and lived in Italy for a while in
the 1920s. He began his literary career with poetry and critical
essays, then turned to novels. Having been born just too late to
participate in World War I, he was able, in his early works, such
as CROME YELLOW (1921), ANTIC HAY (1923), THOSE BARREN LEAVES
(1925), and POINT COUNTER POINT (1928), to perfectly capture a
sense of purposeless aftermath which resonated strongly in British
society at the time. A satirical strain already evident manifested
itself spectacularly in BRAVE NEW WORLD (1932), after which much of
his work began to show a fantastic or speculative cast, including
AFTER MANY A SUMMER DIES THE SWAN (about immortality, 1939), TIMES
MUST HAVE A STOP (1944), and APE AND ESSENCE (a dystopia, 1948).
ISLAND, his last work, published in 1962, is a utopia. Late in life
he developed an increasing disdain for Western society and an
interest in Eastern mysticism and in the possibilities of
psychedelic drugs, which he described in THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION
(1954).MORTAL COILS is a short-story collection from Huxley's early
period, including one of his most popular stories, "The Gioconda
Smile."
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