Buy this book on-line HUXLEY**, ALDOUS: : ADONIS & THE ALPHABET: AND OTHER ESSAYSLONDON.CHATTO & WINDUS,1956. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG/VG.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Green and white dw/dj with four colour-block design to upper wrap and publisher's advert to rear wrap and slightly darkened spine/ backstrip.Minimal shelf-wear but some light creasing to top edges with closed tears and rubbing to top two corners and head of spine/backstrip. Rear wrap slightly aged/grubbed.Top edge coloured green,fore-edge slightly aged and bottom edge partially untrimmed; contents generally bright,tight and clean.Slightly grubbed,publisher's original,apple-green cloth boards with stamped,blue ink letters to spine/backstrip and plain white endpaperss with off-set foxing from dw/dj's inner flaps.Described hard but fair - better than it reads!! UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,10-285pp includes 17 essays and a 12pp appendix. This new book of essays (then 1956) demonstrates afresh the unorthodox,wide-ranging quality of Huxley's mind.He is concerned, throughout,with modern man,in his relation to the past,the technological present,the ominous future.Himself both humanist and mystic,Huxley points the way to a new synthesis.He discusses the 'sins of the intellect', the confusion of knowledge with understanding,the 'difficult art of being charitable' in a world where 'solitude is receding at the rate of four and a half kilometres per annum'.He visits a place,and it starts a lively train of thought: at Paphos,he recalls the beauty of Mallarme's poetry: in Salt Lake city,he ponders on the relation between music and popular taste. These essays deal,then,with a diversity of subjects.But there runs through them a unity of purpose,and the vision of a man who can view the past without illusions and the future without despair.
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