Aldous Huxley bibliography
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The following bibliography of Aldous Huxley provides a chronological list of the published works of English writer Aldous Huxley (1894–1963). It includes his fiction and non-fiction, both published during his lifetime and posthumously.[1][2]
Huxley was a writer and philosopher.[3][4][5][6] He wrote nearly fifty books[7][8]—both novels and non-fiction works—as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems. Born into the prominent Huxley family, he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford with an undergraduate degree in English literature. Early in his career, he published short stories and poetry and edited the literary magazine Oxford Poetry, before going on to publish travel writing, satire, and screenplays. He spent the latter part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death.[9] By the end of his life, Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time.[10] He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times[11] and was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 1962.[12]
Huxley was a humanist and pacifist. He grew interested in philosophical mysticism[13][14] and universalism,[15] addressing these subjects with works such as The Perennial Philosophy (1945)—which illustrates commonalities between Western and Eastern mysticism—and The Doors of Perception (1954)—which interprets his own psychedelic experience with mescaline. In his most famous novel Brave New World (1932) and his final novel Island (1962), he presented his vision of dystopia and utopia, respectively.
Books[]
Fiction[]
Novels[]
- Crome Yellow (1921)
- Antic Hay (1923)
- Those Barren Leaves (1925)
- Point Counter Point (1928)
- Brave New World (1932)
- Eyeless in Gaza (1936)
- After Many a Summer (1939)
- Time Must Have a Stop (1944)
- Ape and Essence (1948)
- The Genius and the Goddess (1955)
- Island (1962)
Short story collections[]
- Limbo (1920)
- Mortal Coils (1922)
- Little Mexican and Other Stories (1924) (US title: Young Archimedes)
- Two or Three Graces and Other Stories (1926)
- Brief Candles (1930)
- Collected Short Stories (1944)
- Jacob's Hands: A Fable (co-written with Christopher Isherwood; discovered 1997)
- After the Fireworks: Three Novellas (2016)
Children's fiction[]
- The Crows of Pearblossom (1967)
Non-fiction[]
- They Still Draw Pictures: A collection of 60 drawings made by Spanish children during the war (1938), The Spanish Child Welfare Association (Huxley as illustrator)
- Grey Eminence: A Study in Religion and Politics (1941)
- The Art of Seeing: An Adventure in Re-education (1942) (exploration of the discredited Bates method)
- The Perennial Philosophy (1945)
- The Devils of Loudun (1953)
- Selected Letters (2007)
Essay collections[]
- On the Margin: Notes and Essays (1923)
- Essays New and Old (1926)
- Proper Studies: The Proper Study of Mankind Is Man (1927)
- Do What You Will (1929) (full text)
- Holy Face and Other Essays (1929)
- Vulgarity in Literature: Digressions from a Theme (1930)
- Music at Night and Other Essays (1931)
- Texts and Pretexts: An Anthology with Commentaries (1932)
- The Olive Tree and Other Essays (1936) (full text)
- Ends and Means: An Enquiry into the Nature of Ideals and the Methods Employed for their Realization (1937) Reissued by Transaction Publishers (2012), with a new introduction "Pacifism and Non-Attachment" by Howard G. Schneiderman
- Words and their Meanings (1940)
- Science, Liberty and Peace (1946)
- Themes and Variations (1950)
- The Doors of Perception (1954)
- Heaven and Hell (1956)
- Adonis and the Alphabet and Other Essays (1956) (US title: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow)
- Collected Essays (1958)
- Brave New World Revisited (1958)
- On Art and Artists: Literature, Painting, Architecture, Music (1960)
- Literature and Science (1963)
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- Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience 1931–63 (1977)
- The Human Situation: Lectures at Santa Barbara, 1959 (1977)
Pamphlets[]
- Pacifism and Philosophy (1935)
- 1936 . . . PEACE? (1936)
- What Are You Going to Do about It?: The Case for Constructive Peace (1936)
- An Encyclopedia of Pacifism (1937) (editor) (full text)
- The Most Agreeable Vice (1938)
- The Politics of Ecology: The Question of Survival (1963)
Travel books[]
- Along the Road: Notes and Essays of a Tourist (1925)
- Jesting Pilate: The Diary of a Journey (1926)
- Beyond the Mexique Bay : A Traveller's Journey (1934)
Poetry collections[]
- Oxford Poetry (1916) (magazine editor)
- The Burning Wheel (1916)
- Jonah (1917)
- The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems (1918)
- Leda (1920)
- Selected Poems (1925)
- Arabia Infelix and Other Poems (1929)
- The Cicadas and Other Poems (1931)
- The Collected Poetry of Aldous Huxley (1971)
Screenplays[]
- Pride and Prejudice (1940) (collaboration with Jane Murfin)
- Madame Curie (1943) (uncredited; collaboration with Paul Osborn and Hans Rameau)
- Jane Eyre (1943) (collaboration with John Houseman and Robert Stevenson)
- A Woman's Vengeance (1947)
- Original screenplay (rejected) for Disney's animated Alice in Wonderland (1951) [16]
Drama[]
- The Discovery (1924) (adapted from Francis Sheridan)
- The World of Light: A Comedy in Three Acts (1931) (full text)
- Mortal Coils – A Play (1948) (stage version of The Gioconda Smile)
- The Genius and the Goddess (1958) (stage version, co-written with Betty Wendel)
- The Ambassador of Captripedia (1967)
- Now More Than Ever (2000) (Lost play discovered by the Department of English Literature, University of Münster, Germany)
Articles written for Vedanta and the West[]
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Audio recordings[]
- Knowledge and Understanding (1955), A lecture given at the Hollywood Temple of the Vedanta Society of Southern California [17][18]
- Who Are We? (1955), A lecture given at the Hollywood Temple of the Vedanta Society of Southern California [18][19]
References[]
- ^ Claire John Eschelbach; Joyce Lee Shober (1961). Aldous Huxley. University of California Press. p. 17. GGKEY:5UP9C4T4NSF.
- ^ Patrick M. O'Neil (2004). Great World Writers: Twentieth Century. Marshall Cavendish. p. 608. ISBN 978-0-7614-7473-9.
- ^ Watt, Donald, ed. (1975). Aldous Huxley. Routledge. p. 366. ISBN 978-0-415-15915-9.
Inge's agreement with Huxley on several essential points indicates the respect Huxley's position commanded from some important philosophers … And now we have a book by Aldous Huxley, duly labelled The Perennial Philosophy. … He is now quite definitely a mystical philosopher.
- ^ Sion, Ronald T. (2010). Aldous Huxley and the Search for Meaning: A Study of the Eleven Novels. McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 2. ISBN 978-0-7864-4746-6.
Aldous Huxley, as a writer of fiction in the 20th century, willingly assumes the role of a modern philosopher-king or literary prophet by examining the essence of what it means to be human in the modern age. … Huxley was a prolific genius who was always searching throughout his life for an understanding of self and one's place within the universe.
- ^ Reiff, Raychel Haugrud (2010). Aldous Huxley: Brave New World. Marshall Cavendish Corporation. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-7614-4278-3.
He was also a philosopher, mystic, social prophet, political thinker, and world traveler who had a detailed knowledge of music, medicine, science, technology, history, literature and Eastern religions.
- ^ Sawyer, Dana (2002). Aldous Huxley: A Biography. The Crossroad Publishing Company. p. 187. ISBN 978-0-8245-1987-2.
Huxley was a philosopher but his viewpoint was not determined by the intellect alone. He believed the rational mind could only speculate about truth and never find it directly.
- ^ Raychel Haugrud Reiff, Aldous Huxley: Brave New World, Marshall Cavendish (2009), p. 101
- ^ Dana Sawyer in M. Keith Booker (ed.), Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics: H-R, Greenwood Publishing Group (2005), p. 359
- ^ "The Britons who made their mark on LA". 11 September 2011. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
- ^ Thody, Philipe (1973)
- ^ "Nomination Database: Aldous Huxley". Nobel Prize.org. Retrieved 19 March 2015
- ^ "Companions of Literature" Archived 2 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine . Royal Society of Literature. Retrieved 5 January 2015
- ^ Thody, Philipe (1973). Huxley: A Biographical Introduction. Scribner. ISBN 978-0-289-70188-1.
- ^ David K. Dunaway (1995). Aldous Huxley Recollected: An Oral History. Rowman Altamira. p. 90. ISBN 978-0-7619-9065-9.
- ^ Roy, Sumita (2003), Aldous Huxley And Indian Thought, Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd
- ^ Bradshaw, David (1993). "Introduction". Aldous Huxley's "Those Barren Leaves" (Vintage Classics, 2005). Vintage, Random House, 20 Vauxhall Brigade Road, London. xii.
- ^ "Knowledge and Understanding". AllMusic. Retrieved 8 March 2013.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Note on lecturing in Santa Barbara". Pooler-georgia-homepage.com. Archived from the original on 16 January 2013. Retrieved 8 March 2013.
- ^ "Who Are We?". AllMusic. Retrieved 8 March 2013.
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