Between the Wars - by Aldous Huxley & David Bradshaw (Paperback)

About the Book

Newly published essays and letters, edited and introduced by David Bradshaw, showing Huxley's transformation from a scourge of the masses in the 1920s to their compassionate spokeman by the 1930s, and including writings on art and literature, and letters to H.L. Mencken and H.G. Wells.

Book Synopsis

Newly published essays and letters, edited and introduced by David Bradshaw, showing Huxley's transformation from a scourge of the masses in the 1920s to their compassionate spokeman by the 1930s, and including writings on art and literature, and letters to H.L. Mencken and H.G. Wells.

Review Quotes

A journalistic miscellany...his keen perception comes through with unique immediacy and polymathic wit.

A sympathetic portrait of the writer...a new perspective on issues that were of concern to literary communities during this period.

For the centenary of Huxley's birth this year, editor Bradshaw, a fellow at Oxford University and biographer of Huxley, has assembled 28 previously uncollected articles published during the interwar years. Although Huxley is now primarily known as a detached satirist of human society and its conventions, thanks to novels such as Brave New World and Crome Yellow, Bradshaw argues that he was far more politically aware and sympathetic than his currently available work would indicate.

Skillfully done...This gathering of essays and broadcasts reveals the range of his social and political commitments.

About the Author

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), one of the most important novelists of the twentieth century, also wrote biography, essays, and criticism. Other Huxley volumes published by Ivan R. Dee include Collected Short Stories and Ape and Essence. David Bradshaw is a fellow at Oxford University and is at work on a major biography of Aldous Huxley.