ALDOUS HUXLEY - A Biography.VOL 2,1939-1963. - 2 Angebote vergleichen

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY.
LONDON.CHATTO & WINDUS/COLLINS,1973.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG/VG.Minus ffe,no owner inscrptn but an owner bookplate pasted to half-title page and a small neat ink library name stamp to both front and rear bottom corners of eps,behind dw/dj inner flaps and also a white ink library cataloguing stamp to foot of spine/backstrip.These are the only marks to indicate an ex-lib copy.B/w photographic dw/dj with minimal shelf-wear and creasing to edges but wrinkling to both upper and lower wraps and price-clipped.Dw/dj probably protected at some stage, as there is a sellotape residue mark to each Bd.Top edge dust-soiled and fore-edge slightly aged.Contents bright, tight and clean.Blue paper-covered bds with gilt letters to spine/backstrip and the aforementioned white library mark, with plain white eps.8vo,xvpp preface+author's note+400pp includes b/w photographic portrait frntis,10pp b/w photographs, chronology,sources and an index. Aldous Huxley, whose works are translated and studied throughout the world, will surely rank as one of the outstanding English men of letters of his time.His enquiring mind and acute intelligence led him into many and diverse fields of thought.He was also a man of great sweetness of temper, with an unfailing sense of enjoyment and fun, and this made his company endlessly stimulating and entertaining.In writing the biography of such a man, Sybille Bedford, a friend of some thirty years, gives shape and coherence to the development of a life, that for all its extraordinary quality, had its common share of ups and downs.As a girl she lived for long periods in his household:the details of his life - gossip, picnics, jokes, money, work, the endless house-moves - were familiar to her at first hand.His friends were, often,her friends.His immense reading helped to form her mind.Like him her great distinction as a writer extends over other forms besides the novels for which she is best known on both sides of the Atlantic.So perfect a coming together of author and subject could hardly fail to produce a biography of high order.Companion volume to rja208. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk, because of the weight of this item, for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

Lieferung aus: Vereinigtes Königreich Großbritannien und Nordirland, Shipping costs to: MWI.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG/VG.No owner inscrptn.but an owner's bookplate pasted to ffe and price-clipped to dw/dj.B/w photographic portrait dw/dj with some light shelf-wear and slight creasing to edges and lightly sunned/faded spine/backstrip.Top edge dust-soiled with fore-edges slightly aged and grubbed.Contents bright,tight and clean. Blue paper-covered bds with gilt letters to spine/backstrip and plain white eps.Bottom edges of bds lightly marked/stained.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,xii+378pp includes b/w photographic portrait frntis,chronology,list of works,sources,appendices(2),8pp b/w photographs and an index. In the second half of his life Aldous Huxley became ever more deeply concerned with the condition of man in the 20thC, his power to multiply and to destroy himself, his relation to nature, to society, to the planet on which he must live and to the values he must live by.Yet as before Huxley is presented not only as a writer and thinker, but as a private man.We see him in his day-to-day life, in the free and easy world of Hollywood or at his isolated house in the arid beauty of the Nevada desert, his ventures into the world of films and the theatre, in the anxieties of WW2 and the trials of bereavement as well as the gaiety and happiness of his family relationships. These were the years of Grey Eminence, a historical biography that offers insight into the mysticism with which he was increasingly preoccupied; of 'Time Must Have A Stop' and 'Perennial Philosophy'; 'The Doors of Perception',his controversial book on the use of hallucinogenic drugs; of 'Island', the 'good' Utopia that complements the satire of 'Brave New World.' However his achievements are rated,Huxley was an exceptional human being.So it is not altogether surprising that his life should exemplify to an exceptional degree the contradictions of the human condition.How does one reconcile, for instance,Huxley's devotion to his first wife with his seeming blindness to the stresses his dependence imposed upon her,and his renaissance after her death? How can one explain the diverse,sometimes perverse,methods he employed in his search for a state of self-transcendence? This evidence, above all, reveals Huxley as a man whose extraordinary range of knowledge was matched by kindness, fortitude and compassion;a man who was much loved.His lectures on American university campuses attracted many thousands of young people who instinctively recognised in him both the wisdom born of self-knowledge and true humanity.The reader of this biography will share that perception.Companion volume to rja329. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!