Aldous Huxley

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born

July 26, 1894 in Godalming, Surrey, England, The United Kingdom

died

November 22, 1963

gender

male

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Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction

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Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. He spent the latter part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death in 1963. Best known for his novels and wide-ranging output of essays, he also published short stories, poetry, travel writing, and film stories and scripts. Through his novels and essays Huxley functioned as an examiner and sometimes critic of social mores, norms and ideals. Huxley was a humanist but was also interested towards the end of his life in spiritual subjects such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism. By the end of his life Huxley was considered, in some academic circles, a leader of modern thought and an in...more

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Books by Aldous Huxley

Average rating: 3.86 · 359,744 ratings · 8,392 reviews · 121 distinct works

	Brave New World 3.86 avg rating — 330,476 ratings — published 1932 — 239 editions	My rating:
	Brave New World/Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley, Christopher Hitchens (Foreword) 3.95 avg rating — 6,581 ratings — published 1958 — 18 editions	My rating:
	The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell 3.87 avg rating — 6,273 ratings — published 1956 — 22 editions	My rating:
	Island 3.76 avg rating — 4,048 ratings — published 1962 — 41 editions	My rating:
	Brave New World Revisited 3.79 avg rating — 3,137 ratings — published 1958 — 30 editions	My rating:
	Point Counter Point 3.81 avg rating — 1,707 ratings — published 1928 — 28 editions	My rating:
	Ape and Essence 3.66 avg rating — 1,004 ratings — published 1948 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Crome Yellow 3.38 avg rating — 1,181 ratings — published 1921 — 74 editions	My rating:
	The Perennial Philosophy 4.24 avg rating — 662 ratings — published 1945 — 16 editions	My rating:
	After Many a Summer Dies the Swan 3.70 avg rating — 664 ratings — published 1939 — 20 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Aldous Huxley

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays 2, 1926-29

tags: fact , ignorance , truth

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“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
― Aldous Huxley, Music At Night: And Other Essays

tags: music

1,742 people liked it

“Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”
― Aldous Huxley

tags: hell , life

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What frequently challenged and/or banned adult-themed book should we read in June and July? [Book were chosen from Banned Books bookshelf by random number generator:]

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

24 votes, 24.5%

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

17 votes, 17.3%

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

13 votes, 13.3%

Cujo by Stephen King

12 votes, 12.2%

The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell

10 votes, 10.2%

Ordinary People by Judith Guest

8 votes, 8.2%

Rabbit, Run by John Updike

6 votes, 6.1%

Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya

5 votes, 5.1%

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

3 votes, 3.1%

Private Parts by Howard Stern

0 votes, 0.0%

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