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Aldous Huxley (Critical Lives)
1789144272 azw3 An outstanding book.James Sexton A welcome and necessary update of the life of one of the twentieth century's most provocative intellectuals.Dana Sawyer A rich and lucid account of Aldous Huxleys life and work. Aldous Huxley was one of the twentieth centurys most prescient thinkers. This new biography is a rich and lucid account that charts the different phases of Huxleys career: from the early satirist who depicted the glamorous despair of the postwar generation, to the committed pacifist of the 1930s, the spiritual seeker of the 1940s, the psychedelic sage of the 1950swho affirmed the spiritual potential of mescaline and LSDto the New Age prophet of Read more