Aldous Huxley

by Bedford, Sybille

• ISBN13: 9781566634540
• ISBN10: 1566634547
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: Ivan R Dee

Summary

In this dazzling conjunction of subject and author, the great English novelist Aldous Huxley is brought wholly alive in a magnificent full-scale biography by the brilliant English novelist Sybille Bedford.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xvii
Author's Notes	p. xxi
The Young Boy 1894-1908
Laleham, Surrey, England	p. 2
Prior's Field	p. 5
Hillside	p. 12
The Inheritance	p. 18
"Impaired" 1908-1914
First Damage	p. 24
Aldous at Eton	p. 27
The Second Impairment	p. 32
Pulling Through	p. 37
"That One Glorious Year at Balliol"	p. 43
Trevenen	p. 46
Return to Oxford	p. 48
The Hard Years 1914-1921
"The Quiet Life of Anglo Saxon Lectures"	p. 52
A Young Man on His Own	p. 55
Starting Points	p. 59
"The Artificial Roses of Academic Distinction"	p. 62
Prospects	p. 65
"The Extraordinary Good Fortune"	p. 69
Aldous at Garsington	p. 73
The Beginning	p. 75
"Helas, il faut que l'on vivote"	p. 82
Interludes	p. 85
Master at Eton	p. 88
Strain	p. 93
Marking Time	p. 96
Post Armistice	p. 99
A Family Reunion	p. 102
Adjustments	p. 104
"My Two Children--Limbo and Leda"	p. 108
European Decade 1921-1930
Tuscan Summer	p. 116
Life in London: Westbourne Terrace	p. 121
Proboque, Deteriora Sequor	p. 130
The Second Novel--Antic Hay	p. 139
Santa Maria a Montici	p. 146
Those Barren Leaves	p. 152
"Leve l'ancre pour une exotique nature!"	p. 159
The Journey Round the World--India	p. 162
"The Range, the Confluence of Associations"	p. 169
The Journey Round the World--Malaya, The Pacific, Japan, The United States	p. 173
Taking Up--New Starting Points	p. 177
One Year	p. 181
A Family Holiday--Involvements with D. H. Lawrence	p. 190
Cottage on the Seine	p. 195
Point Counter Point	p. 199
And Another Year	p. 209
Do What You Will	p. 218
Endings	p. 221
The Apparent Stability 1930-1935
Villa Huley	p. 230
The Bad Utopia	p. 240
Living	p. 247
Beyond the Mexique Bay	p. 266
1933	p. 274
A Store of Gaiety ...	p. 282
Watershed? 1935-1937
E2 Albany, Piccadilly	p. 290
"L'Annee horrible"	p. 298
Eyeless in Gaza: The Nobler Hypothesis	p. 315
Striking Tents	p. 325
Caesura 1937-1939
First Run Around	p. 344
Ends and Means	p. 355
Hollywood, California	p. 358
1938/1939	p. 364
Private Miracle?	p. 366
1938/1939 II--Eat and Drink and Read Books	p. 369
Private Miracle	p. 373
1938/1939 III	p. 376
In Another Country 1939-1945
Limbo	p. 384
Pacific Palisades	p. 388
Llano del Rio	p. 410
Time Must Have a Stop	p. 434
Sufficient Unto the Day 1945-1951
Wrightwood	p. 446
Reversions	p. 466
"As If We Had Never Left"	p. 478
Domestic Seesaw	p. 486
Themes and Variations	p. 490
740 North Kings Road	p. 493
"I Will Show You Sorrow ..." 1951-1955
Summer 1951-Winter 1952	p. 502
Watershed	p. 511
The Door in the Wall	p. 528
1954-1955	p. 547
"Telle qu'en elle-meme ..."	p. 570
Soles Occidere et Redire Possunt 1955-1960
"Meanwhile Life Continues ..."	p. 574
Adonis and the Alphabet	p. 591
Here and Now	p. 594
3276 Deronda Drive, L.A.	p. 602
A Misadventure	p. 611
Towards a Topian Phantasy	p. 617
Father to Son	p. 626
Santa Barbara--Professor at Large	p. 631
Menninger Foundation--Professor at Large	p. 636
Reprieve	p. 644
Cambridge, Massachusetts--Carnegie Professor in Humanities	p. 647
Years of Grace 1960-1963
"An Interesting Challenge"	p. 656
London--Summer 1961	p. 662
Travels--An Amende Honorable	p. 677
Mulholland Highway and Professor at Large	p. 682
Summer and Autumn 1962	p. 690
1963--Winter, Spring, Summer	p. 696
Island and After ...	p. 704
1963--September, October, November	p. 728
Short List of Works Consulted	p. 745
Acknowledgements	p. 747
Chronology	p. 749
Chronological List of Works by Aldous Huxley	p. 769
Index
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