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Олдос Хаксли – не только автор легендарных романов «О дивный новый мир», «Остров», «Слепец в Газе» и многих других, но и признанный мастер классической английской новеллы, стоящий в одном ряду с такими новеллистами, как Сомерсет Моэм, Джером К. Джером, Ивлин Во…
В эту книгу вошли авторские сборники рассказов 1920-х годов – «Лимбо» и «Мирская суета». В них нашли отражение все самые яркие черты английской новеллистики: ирония и юмор, лаконичность, разнообразие форм повествования, парадоксальность сюжета и, конечно, неожиданная концовка.
В эту книгу вошли авторские сборники рассказов 1920-х годов – «Лимбо» и «Мирская суета». В них нашли отражение все самые яркие черты английской новеллистики: ирония и юмор, лаконичность, разнообразие форм повествования, парадоксальность сюжета и, конечно, неожиданная концовка.
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Published September 8, 2023
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Aldous Huxley
791 books13.8k followersAldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives, and poems.
Born into the prominent Huxley family, he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with a 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. By the end of his life, Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times, and was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 1962.
Huxley was a pacifist. He grew interested in philosophical mysticism, as well as universalism, addressing these subjects in his 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 visions of dystopia and utopia, respectively.
Born into the prominent Huxley family, he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with a 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. By the end of his life, Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times, and was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 1962.
Huxley was a pacifist. He grew interested in philosophical mysticism, as well as universalism, addressing these subjects in his 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 visions of dystopia and utopia, respectively.
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