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Definition: Aldous Huxley |
Aldous HuxleyNoun1. English writer; grandson of Thomas Huxley who is remembered mainly for his depiction of a scientifically controlled utopia (1894-1963). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Aldous HuxleySynonyms: Aldous Leonard Huxley (n), Huxley (n). (additional references) |
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Huxley was born in the United Kingdom, being a son of the writer Leonard Huxley by his first wife, Julia Arnold; and grandson of Thomas Huxley. Julia died in 1908, when Aldous was only thirteen. Three years later, he suffered an illness which seriously damaged his eyesight. His near-blindness disqualified him from service in World War I.
Aldous Huxley completed his first (unpublished) novel at the age of seventeen, and began writing seriously in his early twenties. He wrote great novels on dehumanising aspects of scientific progress (e.g. Brave New World), and on pacifist themes (e.g. Eyeless in Gaza). Huxley was strongly influenced by F. Matthias Alexander and included him as a character in Eyeless in Gaza.
During the war, he spent much of his time at Garsington Manor, home of Lady Ottoline Morrell. Later, in Crome Yellow (1921) he caricatured the Garsington lifestyle, but remained friendly with the Morrells. He married Maria Nys, whom he had met at Garsington.
Huxley moved to California in 1937. He became a Hindu in the circle of Swami Prabhavananda, and he also introduced Christopher Isherwood to this circle. He started meditating and he became a vegetarian. Thereafter, his works were strongly influenced by mysticism and the hallucinogenic drug mescalin.
Selected works
Novels
Short stories
Travel writing
Essays
Philosophical Writings
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Crosswords: Aldous Huxley |
| English words defined with "Aldous Huxley": rancorous. (references) |
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Clever | After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. (references; author: Aldous Huxley) | |
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Aldous Huxley | After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-l-l-o-s-u-u-x-y" | |
-4 letters: hulloaed, sexually. | |
-5 letters: alloyed, alludes, aludels, duellos, halloed, halloes, hollaed, hulloas, hulloed, hulloes, shauled, shoaled, usually. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6C 64 6F 75 73 48 75 78 6C 65 79 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101100 01100100 01101111 01110101 01110011 00100000 01001000 01110101 01111000 01101100 01100101 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A l d o u s   H u x l e y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006C 0064 006F 0075 0073 0048 0075 0078 006C 0065 0079 |
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