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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20071125
Author:Barbara Fisher is a freelance critic who lives in New York.; Barbara Fisher

Short Takes

Selected Letters of Aldous Huxley

Edited by James Sexton

Ivan R. Dee, 497 pp., $35

If you don't know the life of Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), these letters will be a bit confusing, since very little biographical information is supplied. But they will be entertaining nonetheless. Huxley, born into a wealthy and distinguished family, naturally attended Eton and Oxford. Secure in his world, his family, and his opinions, Huxley writes with wit and grace and daunting certainty. Even as a young man, he knows what he likes.

Writing first with youthful swagger to aristocratic hostess Lady ...

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