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Aldous Huxley was born on July 26, 1894, in Surrey, England, into a distinguished scientific and literary family; his grandfather was the noted scientist and writer, T.H. Huxley. Following an eye illness at age 16 that resulted in near-blindness, Huxley abandoned hope of a career in medicine and turned instead to literature, attending Oxford University and graduating with honors. While at Oxford, he published two volumes of poetry. Crome Yellow, his first novel, was published in 1927 followed by Antic Hay, Those Barren Leaves, and Point Counter Point. His most famous novel, Brave New World, published in 1932, is a science fiction classic about a futuristic society controlled by technology. In all, Huxley produced 47 works during his long career, In 1947, Huxley moved with his family to southern California. During the 1950s, he experimented with mescaline and LSD. Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell, both works of nonfiction, were based on his experiences while taking mescaline under supervision. In 1959, Aldous Huxley received the Award of Merit for the Novel from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died on November 22, 1963. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Brave New World… (more)
Brave New World 52,204 copies, 749 reviews
Island 4,117 copies, 59 reviews
Brave New World Revisited 2,732 copies, 25 reviews
Point Counter Point 2,512 copies, 25 reviews
Crome Yellow 1,947 copies, 43 reviews
The Perennial Philosophy 1,788 copies, 14 reviews
The Devils of Loudun 1,456 copies, 21 reviews
Ape and Essence 1,286 copies, 15 reviews
Eyeless in Gaza 1,275 copies, 17 reviews
Antic Hay 1,275 copies, 19 reviews
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan 1,165 copies, 15 reviews
The Doors of Perception 1,092 copies, 12 reviews
Time must have a stop 584 copies, 7 reviews
Those Barren Leaves (Author) 571 copies, 5 reviews
The Genius and the Goddess (Author) 486 copies, 5 reviews
The Art of Seeing 395 copies, 3 reviews
The Crows of Pearblossom 333 copies, 11 reviews
Grey Eminence 275 copies, 5 reviews
Brief Candles (Author) 236 copies, 1 review
Collected Short Stories 229 copies, 1 review
Music at Night and Other Essays 183 copies, 1 review
Jacob's Hands 177 copies, 3 reviews
Mortal Coils 171 copies, 3 reviews
Collected Essays 164 copies
Jesting Pilate (Author) 142 copies, 2 reviews
Heaven and Hell (Author) 137 copies, 2 reviews
Beyond the Mexique Bay 131 copies, 3 reviews
Huxley and God: Essays 119 copies, 2 reviews
Two or Three Graces (Author) 82 copies
Pride and Prejudice [1940 film] (Screenwriter) 81 copies, 2 reviews
Science, Liberty, and Peace 76 copies, 1 review
Limbo 66 copies, 2 reviews
Jane Eyre [1943 film] (Screenwriter) 62 copies, 2 reviews
Do What You Will 59 copies, 1 review
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Twice Seven 51 copies
Proper Studies 51 copies, 1 review
Little Mexican 38 copies
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Adonis and the alphabet 36 copies, 1 review
Leda 19 copies, 1 review
Mi Tio Spencer 17 copies
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Words and their meanings 10 copies, 1 review
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1977 1 copy
1965 1 copy
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50 Great Short Stories (Contributor) 1,198 copies, 7 reviews
The Devil in the Flesh (Introduction, some editions) 1,073 copies, 19 reviews
The Crimes of Love (Introduction, some editions) 531 copies, 2 reviews
The First and Last Freedom (Foreword, some editions) 488 copies, 11 reviews
The Penguin Book of English Short Stories (Contributor) 421 copies, 4 reviews
A Treasury of Short Stories (Contributor) 286 copies
The Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse (Contributor, some editions) 260 copies, 3 reviews
A Book of English Essays (Contributor) 235 copies, 2 reviews
The Omnibus of Crime (Contributor) 197 copies, 2 reviews
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The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (Foreword, some editions) 181 copies, 4 reviews
Zen and the Psychology of Transformation: The Supreme Doctrine (Foreword, some editions) 173 copies, 5 reviews
Selected Letters (Editor) 162 copies, 1 review
Short Stories from the Strand (Contributor) 134 copies, 1 review
The World of Mathematics, Volume 4 (Contributor) 120 copies, 1 review
The Utopia Reader (Contributor) 109 copies, 1 review
You Are Not the Target (Foreword) 105 copies, 2 reviews
Great Modern Reading (Contributor) 96 copies, 2 reviews
The Piero della Francesca trail (some editions) 86 copies
The Complete Etchings of Goya (Preface, some editions) 81 copies, 2 reviews
The Treasury of Science Fiction Classics (Contributor) 73 copies, 1 review
Traveller's Library (Contributor) 67 copies, 1 review
Brave New World: A Graphic Novel (Contributor) 50 copies, 2 reviews
Vedanta for Modern Man (Contributor, some editions) 46 copies, 1 review
Krishnamurti: 100 Years (Author) 45 copies, 3 reviews
Masters of the Modern Short Story (Contributor) 44 copies
A Quarto of Modern Literature (Contributor) 38 copies
Modern English Short Stories (Contributor) 34 copies, 1 review
The Devils [1971 film] (Original novel) 30 copies
A Book of Essays (Contributor) 26 copies
The Seas of God: Great Stories of the Human Spirit (Contributor) 25 copies, 2 reviews
A Virgin Heart (Translator, some editions) 23 copies
Great English Short Stories (Contributor) 20 copies, 1 review
Acupuncture : cure of many diseases (Preface, some editions) 20 copies, 1 review
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Future Media (Contributor) 13 copies
Trees: A Celebration (Contributor) 13 copies
Mehr Morde (Contributor) 13 copies
Travel in Vogue (Author) 9 copies
Murder Without Tears (Contributor) 9 copies
Meesters der Engelse vertelkunst (Contributor) 8 copies
The Black Cabinet (Contributor) 7 copies
The London Omnibus (Contributor) 6 copies
They still draw pictures! (Introduction) 6 copies
The Ambassador (Contributor) 5 copies
The discovery: a comedy in five acts (Adaptation, some editions) 5 copies
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Great Tales of the Far West (Contributor) 2 copies
Oxford Poetry 1917 (Contributor) 2 copies
Georgian Stories 1924 (Contributor) 2 copies
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Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and a prominent member of the Huxley family. Best known for his novels and a wide-ranging output of essays, Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and published short stories, poetry, travel writing, film stories and scripts. He spent the later part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death.
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