Aldous Huxley: A Biography: Volume Two: The Turning Points 1939-1963
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Sybille Bedford's authorised biography of Aldous Huxley stands as one of the most intimate and rigorously researched literary portraits of the twentieth century. This second volume chronicles the turbulent final decades of Huxley's life — from 1939 to his death in 1963 — tracing his emigration to California, his deepening engagement with mysticism and psychedelics, his screenwriting years in Hollywood, and the personal tragedies that shadowed his later brilliance. Bedford draws on privileged access to letters, diaries, and the recollections of those closest to him, reconstructing a life lived at the intersection of intellectual restlessness and spiritual seeking. Written with the precision of a scholar and the narrative grace of a novelist, this biography illuminates the contradictions that defined Huxley — the rationalist drawn to transcendence, the satirist undone by sincerity, the prophet whose warnings grew ever more urgent as the century darkened. Bedford's prose is at once authoritative and deeply personal, reflecting a friendship with her subject that lends the work an emotional authenticity rarely found in literary biography. For readers who know Huxley only through Brave New World or Point Counter Point, this volume reveals the full, restless arc of a mind that never ceased to astonish.
Author: Sybille Bedford
Format: Paperback
Published: 1979, Quartet Books
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good.
Sybille Bedford's authorised biography of Aldous Huxley stands as one of the most intimate and rigorously researched literary portraits of the twentieth century. This second volume chronicles the turbulent final decades of Huxley's life — from 1939 to his death in 1963 — tracing his emigration to California, his deepening engagement with mysticism and psychedelics, his screenwriting years in Hollywood, and the personal tragedies that shadowed his later brilliance. Bedford draws on privileged access to letters, diaries, and the recollections of those closest to him, reconstructing a life lived at the intersection of intellectual restlessness and spiritual seeking. Written with the precision of a scholar and the narrative grace of a novelist, this biography illuminates the contradictions that defined Huxley — the rationalist drawn to transcendence, the satirist undone by sincerity, the prophet whose warnings grew ever more urgent as the century darkened. Bedford's prose is at once authoritative and deeply personal, reflecting a friendship with her subject that lends the work an emotional authenticity rarely found in literary biography. For readers who know Huxley only through Brave New World or Point Counter Point, this volume reveals the full, restless arc of a mind that never ceased to astonish.