Complete essays
Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker (Editor, Writer of added commentary), James Sexton (Editor, Writer of added commentary)
"Over his lifetime from 1894 to 1963, Aldous Huxley earned a reputation as one of the giants of modern English prose and of social commentary in our time. Best known for his novels, including Brave New World and Point Counter Point, Huxley was nonetheless very much at home in the essay form. Ranging from journalism to critical reviews to lierary, political, cultural, and philosophical reflections, these essays stand among the finest examples of the genre in modern literature. They also provide absorbing commentary on contmporary currents and events."--Page 2 of cover
essays
6 volumes : illustrations ; 25 cm
9781566633222, 9781566633239, 9781566633475, 9781566633949, 9781566634410, 9781566634649, 1566633222, 1566633230, 1566633478, 156663394X, 1566634415, 1566634644
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v. 1. 1920-1925
v. 2. 1926-1929
v. 3. 1930-1935
v. 4. 1936-1938
v. 5. 1939-1956
v. 6. 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948. v. 1. 1920-1925: A Note on This Edition
Introduction
I. ARCHITECTURE, PAINTING, LITERATURE: Proust: The Eighteenth-Century Method
A Ghost of the Nineties
(On Essays)
(Proust and Best-Sellers)
(Godwin and Bailey)
(Balzac and Social History)
(Aristocracy and Literature)
(Alfieri)
(Bacon's Symbolism)
The Cry for a Messiah in the Arts
The Modern Spirit and a Family Party
Marie Laurencin: A Woman of Genius
A Film with a Warning
The Salzburg Festival
The Portraits of Augustus John Royalty and a Caricature
Centenaries
On Re-reading Candide
Subject-Matter of Poetry
Water Music
Bibliophily
Accumulations
On Deviating into Sense
Polite Conversation
Nationality in Love
How the Days Draw In
Beauty in 1920
Great Thoughts
Advertisements
Euphues Redivivus
The Author of Eminent Victorians
-Edward Thomas
A Wordsworth Anthology
Verhaeren
Edward Lear
Sir Christopher Wren
Ben Jonson
Chaucer
How to Write a Tragedy
The Importance of the Comic Genius
A Ballet in the Modernist Manner
Fashions in Visual Imagery
Popular Literature
Art and Life
The Spread of Bad Art
What, Exactly, Is Modern?
Where are the Movies Moving?
The Pleasant and the Unpleasant
Books for the Journey
Sabbioneta
Breughel
Rimini and Alberti
Conxolus
The Best Picture
The Pierian Spring
The Mystery of the Theater
II. MUSIC: Brahms
Busoni, Dr. Burney, and Others
The Interpreter and the Creator
Good-Popular Music
Instruction with Pleasure
Emotional Contributions
Light Opera and the New Stravinsky
The Mysteries of Music
Some Easter Music
Music and Machinery
Beethoven Quartets
Singing and Things Sung
Patriotism and Criticism
The Criticism of Music
A Problem of Musical History
The Question of Form
Literary Music
A Few Complaints
Mr. Lawrence's Marchioness
Supplementing the Concerts
Orientalism in Music
Music in a Museum
Popular Tunes
Past and Present
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Thayer's Beethoven
The Salzburg Festival I
The Salzburg Festival II
The Salzburg Festival III
Mozart at Salzburg
Popular Music in Italy
Some Very Young Music
Reflections in the Promenade
Busoni Again
Reflections in the Concert Room
New Friends and Old
Variations
Music and Politics
An Orlando Gibbons Concert
The Arnold Bax Concert
Temporaries and Eternals
Verdi and Palestrina
Round About Don Juan
Delius and the Nature-Emotion
Bad Music
Music in the Encyclopedia
Going to the Opera
Handel, Polly, and Ourselves
Music Clubs
Cherubini
Emotion and Form
Madrigals and Program Music
The Hymn and the Dream
Barbarism in Music
Notes on a Pianist and on Pianos
A Mozart Program
Contemporaneousness
Bach and Handel
Books About Music
What Are the Wild Waves Saying?
Brahms's Birthday
Opera, Marionettes, and Battistini
Eclecticism
Music and the Interpretative Medium
Popular Music
III. HISTORY, POLITICS, SOCIAL CRITICISM: Accidie
Pleasures
Modern Folk Poetry
Democratic Art
Follow My Leader
The Dangers of Work
On Not Being Up-to-Date
Fashions in Love
By Their Speech Ye Shall Know Them
The Importance of Being Nordic
The Horrors of Society
The Psychology of Suggestion
Talking of Monkeys
A Night at Pietramala
Work and Leisure
IV. TRAVEL: Tibet
Why Not Stay at Home?
Wander-Birds
The Traveler's-Eye View
Guide-Books
Spectacles
The Country
Montesenario
Patinir's River
Portoferraio
The Palio at Siena
Views of Holland
Appendix
Index. v. 2. 1926-1929: A Note on This Edition
Introduction
I. ARCHITECTURE, PAINTING, MUSIC, LITERATURE: Sincerity in Art
Dorian Gray
Why I Do Not Go to the Theater
Vulgarity
Silence Is Golden
Swift
Baudelaire
Petrolini: An Acting Genius
II. HISTORY, POLITICS, SOCIAL CRITICISM: On Making Things Too Easy
A Few Well-Chosen Words
The Vanishing Power
The Present Fad of Self-Confession
Other People's Prejudices
How Should Men Be Educated?
Moral and Immoral
Recreations
The Future and the Past
Archaeology in A.D. 5000
The Fallacy of World Brotherhood
Whither Are We Civilizing?
Bad Men
The Battle of the Sexes
The Decline of the Family
Print and the Man
The Importance of Being Foreign
Paradise
Revolutions
III. SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION: No Disputing About Reasons
Measurable and Unmeasurable
The Idea of Equality
Varieties of Intelligence
Education
Political Democracy
The Essence of Religion
A Note on Dogma
The Substitutes for Religion
Personality and the Discontinuity of the Mind
A Note on Ideals
A Note on Eugenics
Comfort
Progress
Ravens and Writing Desks
One and Many
Spinoza's Worm
Wordsworth in the Tropics
Fashions in Love
Francis and Grigory, or the Two Humilities
Holy Face
Pascal
IV. TRAVEL: India and Burma
Malaya
The Pacific
America
Appendix
Index. v. 3. 1930-1935: A Note on This Edition
Introduction
I. ART, LITERATURE, MUSIC: Aesop Revised
The Critic in the Crib
Art and the Critic
Vulgarity in Literature
Reading, the New Vice
Tragedy and the Whole Truth
The Rest Is Silence
Art and the Obvious
"And Wanton Optics Roll the Melting Eye"
Music at Night
Meditation on El Greco
Those Personal Touches
Sermons in Cats
An Exhibition
Too Many Books
Art and Propaganda
Letter Writing
Words, Words, Words
Best of Both Worlds
The Export of Words
Names and Things
Fiction and Fact
The Music Industry
The Hundred Best Books
Best-sellers
Artists Against Fascism and War
II. SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION: Meditation in Arundel Street
Meditation on the Moon
Beliefs and Actions
On Grace
Boundaries of Utopia
On the Charms of History and the Future of the Past
Obstacle Race
Squeak and Gibber
Science and Civilization
Atoms Versus Men
Monks Among Test Tubes
Faith
Science of Politics?
Religion, Science, and Man
Science's Growth
Mind Reading
Science Turns to the Supernatural
The Truth About Thinking
III. HISTORY, POLITICS, SOCIAL CRITICISM: The Outlook for American Culture
In Praise of Intolerance
The Best Authorities
America and Europe: Yesterday's Influence on Today
The New Salvation
Some American Contradictions
Machinery, Psychology, and Politics
This Community Business
Fatal Ladies
Babies
State Property
What Gandhi Fails to See
To the Puritan All Things Are Impure
Document
Points of View
Ethics in Andalusia
Foreheads Villainous Low
The New Romanticism
Selected Snobberies
The Beauty Industry
Wanted, a New Pleasure
Abroad in England
Sight-seeing in Alien Englands
The Victory of Art over Humanity
Revolution
On Going Over a Battleship
Imitations
Ideals and the Machine Tool
Greater and Lesser London
Love Interest Forecast
A Treatise on Drugs
A Letter from India
Pygmalion
A Soviet Schoolbook
Forewarned Is Not Forearmed
Hyde Park on Sunday
In Whose Name?
A Generation War?
Poppy Juice
Paper
The Use of Uselessness
Flight from Force
Are We Growing Stupider?
Peace in Our Time
Japanese Advertisement
Industrial Progress and Social Stability
Sex, the Slump, and Salvation
False Prophets
New World Drama
The Problem of Leisure
The Reality of Progress
Compulsory Suicide
Swastika and Arrows
Man Proposes
Dangers of Diversity
The Problems of Property
What Is the State?
Education
Aristocratic Tradition
Collection
Hamlet in Russia
Psychological Dividends
Living Through History
Political Plans
Primitive Minds
Primitive and Civilized
Bovarism
Functional or Ornamental
Force and Persuasion
Scapegoats
Anthropology at Home
Discipline
The Reality of Progress
German Bonfires
The Race Racket
Population and Politics
Racial History
Swindlers and Swindlees
The Prospects of Fascism in England
The Strain of Modern Life
Pareto and Society
Nights Out
Catastrophes
Dispatches from the Riviera
Reason Eclipsed
What Is Happening to Our Population?
100 Years Hence
Idolatry
500 Prophets
Pistol Fiends
The Worth of a Gift
Casino and Bourse
Angry Ape
The Next 25 Years
Ballyhoo for Nations
Emperor-Worship Up to Date
General Election
Political Murder
Lord Campbell and Mr. Charles
IV. TRAVEL: Beyond the Mexique Bay
Appendix
Index
Includes indexes