Aldous Huxley: books

Aldous Huxley books

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Of Aldous Huxley we only think that there is one book, that of 'Brave New World', however, the truth is that the author wrote many more works. But, if we ask you for Aldous Huxley and his books, Could you tell us any more without looking on the Internet? Most likely, very few could answer that question.

For this reason, on this occasion, we want to focus on the author, considered one of the most important thinkers of the XNUMXth century. But who was this writer? And what books did he write? We tell you everything.

Who was Aldous Huxley

Who was Aldous Huxley

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Before knowing which are Aldous Huxley's books, it is convenient that you know a little about the history of this writer, who from now on we tell you that it is quite striking.

Aldous Huxley, full name Aldous Leonard Huxley, was born in Godalming, Surrey, in 1894. His family was not "humble" in the sense that they went unnoticed. And it is that his grandfather was Thomas Henry Huxley, a very famous evolutionary biologist. His father, also a biologist, was Leonard Huxley. As for her mother, she was one of the first women allowed to study at Oxford, sister of Humphrey Ward (a successful novelist who later became his protector), and niece of Matthew Arnold, a rather famous poet.

Aldous was the third child of four. And all that inheritance and intelligence was reflected in each of the children (his older brother was a highly reputed biologist and scientific popularizer).

Aldous Huxley studied at Eton College. However, at the age of 16 he was almost blind for a year and a half due to an attack of punctate keratitis, an eye disease. Despite this, during this time he learned to read and play the piano with the Braille system. After that time, he regained his sight, but it was severely impaired since he had many limitations with both eyes.

This makes you have to give up his dream of being a doctor and ends up graduating in English literature from Balliol College, Oxford.

At the age of 22, and despite his vision problems, he published his first book, The Burning Wheel, where you will find a collection of poems that he completed in four years with three volumes: Jonah, The Defeat of Youth, and Leda.

As for his job, he was a professor at Eton, but ended up quitting because he didn't like it too much. Shortly after, he worked at Athenaeum magazine alongside a team of editors. He did not write with his real name, if not with a pseudonym, 'Autolycus'. A year after that job, he became a theater critic for the Westminster Gazzette.

In 1920 he began to publish his first stories. The first was Limbo, while, years later, he would publish The Human Wrap, My Uncle Spencer, Two or Three Graces and Fogonazos.

But the first real novel was Crome's scandals, which was the one that consolidated his career as a writer.

After that book, many more continued to arrive, which he combined with his other passion, traveling. That allows him not only to write in many genres and plots, but also to live different cultures that were enriching him and that were part of his own life.

It was in 1960 that his health problems really began. In that year he was diagnosed with tongue cancer and endured two years with radiotherapy. Finally, on November 22, 1963, Aldous Huxley died administering two doses of LSD, not without leaving instructions on what to do: on the one hand, read the Tibetan Book of the Dead in his ear; on the other, being cremated.

Aldous Huxley: the books he wrote

Aldous Huxley: the books he wrote

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Aldous Huxley was quite a prolific writer, and it is that he took out many novels, essays, poems, stories ... Here we leave you the list that we have found with all his works (thanks to Wikipedia).

Poetry

We start with the poetry because it is the first thing Aldous Huxley published in books. Although the first are the oldest, then there was another time when he wrote again.

  • The burning wheel
  • Jonah
  • The defeat of youth and other poems
  • Leda
  • Limbo
  • Chosen poems
  • Cicadas
  • Complete Poetry by Aldous Huxley

Tales

The next thing he published in terms of genre were the stories. The first are the ones he did as a young adult, but later he wrote a few more again.

  • Limbo
  • The human envelope
  • My uncle spencer
  • Two or three thanks
  • Fogonazos
  • The Smile of the Mona Lisa
  • Jacob's Hands
  • Garden crows

Novels

With the novels, Aldous Huxley was very successful from the first one he put out. But even more so with that of Brave New World, which is the one for which he is most commonly known. But there were many more. Here you have the complete list.

  • The Crome scandals
  • Dance of satyrs
  • Art, love and everything else
  • Counterpoint
  • A happy world
  • Blind in Gaza
  • Old swan dies
  • Time must stop
  • Monkey and essence
  • The genie and the goddess
  • The island
Aldous Huxley: the books he wrote

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Tests

In addition to all the above, was very given to give his perspective on life and problems through essays. Of course, they are dense and you have to take your time to understand it, but his philosophy at that time was the best and today he is recognized as one of the essential writers of the twentieth century.

  • Music in the night
  • How do you solve it? The problem of constructive Peace
  • The Olive Tree
  • The end and the means
  • Gray eminence
  • The art of seeing
  • The perennial philosophy
  • Science, freedom and peace
  • The double crisis
  • Themes and variations
  • The demons of Loudun
  • The doors of the perception
  • Adonis and the Alphabet
  • Heaven and hell
  • New visit to a happy world
  • Literature and science
  • Moksha. Writings on psychedelia and visionary experiences 1931-1963
  • The human situation
  • Huxley and God

Travel literature

Finally, and Pairing his wanderlust with writing, he also had time to make some travel books. In these he not only explained what that city or places he visited was like, but also exposed what he felt in each place. Of these he did not write much, although in the previous ones he did nourish the plots with part of his travels.

  • Along the way: notes and essays from a tourist
  • Beyond the Gulf of Mexico
  • Jesting Pilate: An Intellectual Holiday

Have you read anything by Aldous Huxley? What book do you recommend from him?


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