Between the Wars: Essays and Letters

by Aldous Huxley

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Aldous Huxley had left England by 1923 and was living a balmy exile in Florence, Paris, and the Cote d'Azur. Already a literary success at home, his image-from today's vantage point-was that of an aloof and detached highbrow whose sole concern was to satirize the emotional and intellectual failings of British life. Yet as these newly published letters and essays show, Huxley was drawn to the social and political upheavals of this period between the wars, made frequent visits to England to investigate them, and wrote trenchantly about them. His firsthand experience with Mussolini's fascism and with victims of...Read more
  • ISBN10 156663055X
  • ISBN13 9781566630559
  • Publish Date 1 July 1994
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Out of Print 8 June 2010
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Ivan R Dee, Inc
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 283
  • Language English