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Author: Aldous Huxley

Born: July 26, 1894
Died: November 22, 1963

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Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer who spent the latter part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death in 1963. Best known for his novels and wide-ranging output of essays, he also published short stories, poetry, travel writing, and film stories and scripts. Through his novels and essays Huxley functioned as an examiner and sometimes critic of social mores, norms and ideals. Huxley was a humanist but was also interested towards the end of his life in spiritual subjects such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism. By the end of his life, Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his time.

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"Island"
First published in 1962
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"The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell"
First published in 1956
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"The Genius and the Goddess"
First published in 1955
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"The Devils of Loudun"
First published in 1952
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"Ape and Essence"
First published in 1948
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"Time Must Have a Stop"
First published in 1944
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"The Perennial Philosophy"
First published in 1944
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"Grey Eminence"
First published in 1941
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"After Many a Summer Dies the Swan"
First published in 1939
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"Eyeless in Gaza"
First published in 1936
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"Brave New World"
First published in 1932
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"Brief Candles"
First published in 1930
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"Point Counter Point"
First published in 1928
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"Those Barren Leaves"
First published in 1925
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"Antic Hay"
First published in 1923
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"Crome Yellow"
First published in 1921
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"Leda"
First published in 1920
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"Limbo"
First published in 1920
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"Mortal Coils"
First published in 1920
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"The Defeat of Youth"
First published in 1918
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"The Doors of Perception"
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"Fifty Great Short Stories"
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"The Oxford Book of English Love Stories"
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"Heaven and Hell"
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"Collected Essays"
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