Over the course of his long career, British writer Aldous Huxley
(1894-1963) shifted away from elitist social satires and an
uncompromising irreligion toward greater concern for the masses and
the use of religious terms and imagery. This change in Huxley's
thinking underpins the previously unpublished play Now More Than
Ever. Written in 1932-1933 just after Brave New World, Now More
Than Ever is a response to the social, economic, and political
upheavals of its time. Huxley's protagonist is an idealistic
financier whose grandiose scheme for industrial renewal drives him
to swindling and finally to suicide. His fate allows Huxley to
expose the evils he perceives in free-market capitalism while
pleading the case for national economic planning and the
rationalization of Britain's industrial base. This volume contains
the full text of Now More Than Ever, a play hitherto believed to be
lost. A "thinker's play," it is the last of Huxley's major writings
to be published and immensely important to understanding his
development as a writer. The editors of this volume have annotated
the play for contemporary readers. Their introduction sets the play
in the context of Huxley's intellectual life..
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