Full name: The Genius and the Goddess: A Novel

Author: Aldous Huxley Year: 1955 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Classic Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780061724909 0061724904

Thirty years ago, ecstasy and torment took hold of John Rivers, shocking him out of "half-baked imbecility into something more nearly resembling the human form." He had an affair with the wife of his mentor, Henry Maartens--a pathbreaking physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize, and a figure of blinding brilliance--bringing the couple to ruin. Now, on Christmas Eve while a small grandson sleeps upstairs, John Rivers is moved to set the record straight about the great man and the radiant, elemental creature he married, who viewed the renowned genius through undazzled eyes. Similar books: Wolf Solent by John Cowper Powys Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad Weymouth Sands by John Cowper Powys The Rover by Joseph Conrad Time Must Have a Stop by Aldous Huxley Prater Violet by Christopher Isherwood An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad Riceyman Steps by Arnold Bennett The Sensationist by Charles Palliser The Nigger of the Narcissus by Joseph Conrad The Good Apprentice by Iris Murdoch Those Barren Leaves by Aldous Huxley Theatre by W. Somerset Maugham Nothing by Henry Green The Trespasser by D. H. Lawrence Mortal Coils by Aldous Huxley East of Eden by John Steinbeck Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Stoner by John Williams