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  • Aldous Huxley was an English novelist and critic best known for his dystopian novel Brave New World.

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    Aldous Huxley

  • 1. By: Peter DerksAldous Huxley (1894-1963)

  • 2. 1894-1963Wrote the novelBrave New WorldBesides Novels, he also wrote: travel books, poems, plays as well essays ranging through multiple topics.

  • 3. July 26, 1894 in Godalming, Surrey, English novelist and critic Aldous Leonard Huxley was born.

  • 4. Despite having his mother die (1908) and suffering temporary blindness for 18 months, Huxley was able to earn his B.A. in English from Balliol College, Oxford.

  • 5. Publishing a dozen books through the 1920s, he quickly became a influential literacy figure. Biography

  • 6. Brave New World (1932), which was a fictional book about futuristic society.

  • 7. Brave New World Revisited (1958) was written to show Huxley’s opinion on the masterwork (Brave New World) and reflect on the fact that his assumptions of the future were coming due to Hitler’s Reich.

  • 8. Island (1962) is a return to the a utopia first visited in the novel Brave New World, but not the same futuristic land, instead it is a fabled island called Pala that explores what it would be like from an outsiders point of view coming into such a content land.Biography (Cont'd)

  • 9. Huxley was born into a prestigious family. his grandfather Thomas Henry Huxley, whom was an advocate of Charles Darw
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    Aldous Huxley. The Biography. Life of the Author.

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    1. Aldous Huxley The Biography

    2. Life of the Author • Aldous Leonard Huxley was born on July 26, 1894, into a family that included some of the most distinguished members of that part of the English ruling class made up of the intellectual elite. Aldous' father was the son of Thomas Henry Huxley, a great biologist who helped develop the theory of evolution. His mother was the sister of Mrs. Humphrey Ward, the novelist; the niece of Matthew Arnold, the poet; and the granddaughter of Thomas

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