{"product_id":"2026200010433-secondhand-aldous-huxley-a-biography-volume-one-the-apparent-stability-1894-1939","title":"Aldous Huxley: A Biography, Volume One: The Apparent Stability 1894-1939","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning, FEP held in with tape. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew writers of the twentieth century cast as long and restless a shadow as Aldous Huxley — novelist, essayist, mystic, and provocateur — and Sybille Bedford's monumental biography stands as the definitive account of the man behind the legend. This first volume chronicles the formative years of Huxley's life from his birth in 1894 through to 1939, tracing his ascent from a gifted young scholar marked by personal tragedy to the celebrated author of Brave New World, mapping the intellectual and social currents that shaped his singular vision. Bedford draws on intimate personal acquaintance and exhaustive research to reconstruct Huxley's world with novelistic precision, placing him at the centre of a dazzling constellation of Bloomsbury luminaries, Continental expatriates, and Hollywood émigrés.\n\nWritten with the authority of a fellow literary artist, Bedford's prose achieves a rare balance between scholarly rigour and biographical warmth, illuminating not only Huxley's creative output but the private griefs — the near-blindness, the loss of his mother and first wife — that fuelled his lifelong search for meaning. The portrait that emerges is of a mind perpetually in motion, restlessly testing the limits of science, mysticism, and human freedom. With the second volume yet to come, Bedford leaves the reader suspended at the threshold of Huxley's most turbulent and transformative decade.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130669703387,"sku":"2026200010433-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/ccc66169-e465-442c-8353-8751ba82de55.png?v=1786588403","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200010433-secondhand-aldous-huxley-a-biography-volume-one-the-apparent-stability-1894-1939","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}