Crome Yellow - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0099461897 ISBN 13: 9780099461890

Casa editrice: Vintage Classics, 2025

Riassunto

CON UN'INTRODUZIONE DI MALCOLM BRADBURYDenis Stone, un giovane poeta ingenuo, viene invitato a soggiornare a Crome, una casa di campagna rinomata per i suoi incontri di "giovani brillanti". I suoi ospiti, Henry Wimbush e la sua esotica moglie Priscilla, vengono raggiunti da un gruppo di ospiti stravaganti i cui intrighi e opinioni assicurano che i tentativi di Denis di corteggiare la giovane Anne Wimbush incontrino ogni possibile ostacolo. Pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1921, Crome Yellow è stato il romanzo d'esordio molto acclamato di Aldous Huxley.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Aldous Huxley was born on 26 July 1894 near Godalming, Surrey. He began writing poetry and short stories in his early 20s, but it was his first novel, Crome Yellow (1921), which established his literary reputation. This was swiftly followed by Antic Hay (1923), Those Barren Leaves (1925) and Point Counter Point (1928) – bright, brilliant satires in which Huxley wittily but ruthlessly passed judgement on the shortcomings of contemporary society. For most of the 1920s Huxley lived in Italy and an account of his experiences there can be found in Along the Road (1925). The great novels of ideas, including his most famous work Brave New World (published in 1932, this warned against the dehumanising aspects of scientific and material 'progress') and the pacifist novel Eyeless in Gaza (1936) were accompanied by a series of wise and brilliant essays, collected in volume form under titles such as Music at Night (1931) and Ends and Means (1937). In 1937, at the height of his fame, Huxley left Europe to live in California, working for a time as a screenwriter in Hollywood. As the West braced itself for war, Huxley came increasingly to believe that the key to solving the world's problems lay in changing the individual through mystical enlightenment. The exploration of the inner life through mysticism and hallucinogenic drugs was to dominate his work for the rest of his life. His beliefs found expression in both fiction (Time Must Have a Stop,1944, and Island, 1962) and non-fiction (The Perennial Philosophy, 1945; Grey Eminence, 1941; and the account of his first mescaline experience, The Doors of Perception, 1954). Huxley died in California on 22 November 1963.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Vintage Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0099461897
• ISBN 13: 9780099461890
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 192
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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