A fascinating journey providing a window into Huxley's life and character, revealing an intellectual continually striving for knowledge, "Dawn And The Darkest Hour" is certain to renew interest in one of the most important and influential minds of the 20th century.
A Study of Aldous Huxley
Paperback
Publication Date: 31/01/2007
This title offers an exploration of the life and career of one of the 20th century's greatest novelists. Poet and author George Woodcock traces the famously complex career of a legendary - and controversial - writer. A brilliant and satirical novelist of ideas; a prophet of the future; a pioneer of psychedelic experimentation: Aldous Huxley was a man plagued by excessive intellectual curiosity and a withdrawn melancholic nature. In the dramatic range of his characters and the encyclopaedic quality of his thought, Huxley expressed some of the most interesting and disturbing commentary about the condition of human beings and their relationship to society. As Woodcock began tracing the progress of Huxley's works, he recognised attempts to bring about a synthesis of knowledge "that would give total meaning to existence". In this striking and encompassing critical biography, Woodcock persuasively asks his reader to reconsider Huxley's works as the stages of a spiritual pilgrimage, as he demonstrates that Huxley's entire remarkable oeuvre must be taken as a whole - as a unified "movement out of darkness toward light".
A fascinating journey providing a window into Huxley's life and character, revealing an intellectual continually striving for knowledge, "Dawn And The Darkest Hour" is certain to renew interest in one of the most important and influential minds of the 20th century.
A fascinating journey providing a window into Huxley's life and character, revealing an intellectual continually striving for knowledge, "Dawn And The Darkest Hour" is certain to renew interest in one of the most important and influential minds of the 20th century.
- ISBN:
- 9781551642840
- 9781551642840
- Category:
- Literary studies: from c 1900 -
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 31-01-2007
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Black Rose Books
- Country of origin:
- Canada
- Pages:
- 295
- Dimensions (mm):
- 228x152x16mm
- Weight:
- 0.35kg
Click 'Notify Me' to get an email alert when this item becomes available
Great!
Click on Save to My Library / Lists
Click on Save to My Library / Lists
Select the List you'd like to categorise as, or add your own
Here you can mark if you have read this book, reading it or want to read
Awesome! You added your first item into your Library
Great! The fun begins.
Click on My Library / My Lists and I will take you there
Click on My Library / My Lists and I will take you there
Reviews
Be the first to review Dawn and the Darkest Hour.
Share This Book: