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Aldous Huxley

 
9780292728660: Now More Than Ever (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Imprint Series)
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ISBN 10: 0292728662 ISBN 13: 9780292728660
Editorial: Univ of Chicago behalf of University of Texas, 2000

Sinopsis

Over the course of his career, British writer Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) shifted away from elitist social satires and an atheistic outlook toward greater concern for the masses and the use of religious terms and imagery. This change in Huxley’s thinking underlies the previously unpublished play Now More Than Ever. Written in 1932-1933 just after Brave New World, Now More Than Ever is a response to the social, economic, and political upheavals of its time. Huxley’s protagonist is an idealistic financier whose grandiose schemes for controlling the means of production drive him to swindling and finally to suicide. His fate allows Huxley to expose the evils he perceives in free-market capitalism while pleading the case for national economic planning and the rationalization of Britain’s industrial base. This volume contains the full text of Now More Than Ever, which was believed to be lost until 1976, when a copy was found at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center of the University of Texas at Austin. A "thinker’s play" that has never been produced on stage, it is the last previously unpublished piece of Huxley’s major writings and immensely important to understanding his development as a writer. The editors of this volume have annotated the play for contemporary readers. Their introduction sets the play in the context of Huxley’s intellectual life.

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David Bradshaw is Hawthornden Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Worcester College, Oxford. James Sexton is a Lecturer in English at Camosun College in Victoria, British Columbia.

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Editorial
Univ of Chicago behalf of University of Texas
Año de publicación
2000
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Inglés
ISBN 10 
0292728662
ISBN 13 
9780292728660
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Número de páginas
124
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