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Book review: Aldous Huxley: An English Intellectual: Looking on the bright side

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From: Scotland on Sunday
Date: 20020331
Author:ANDREW BISWELL

Aldous Huxley: An English Intellectual by Nicholas Murray

Little Brown, 20 pounds

ALDOUS Huxley did not invent the word 'dystopia', meaning an imaginary place where everything is as bad as possible. But in his 1932 novel Brave New World, he created one of the truly memorable 20th-century dystopias, which is also one of the most frighteningly pessimistic.

Huxley's childhood might be viewed as a kind of mini-dystopia in its own right. He was born into a literary family in 1894, but his mother died suddenly when he was 10-years-old. Huxley was sent to Eton, where an eye infection sustained at ...

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