Author: Aldous Huxley
Title: A Collection of Works by Aldous Huxley
Description: London, Chatto & Windus, 1949-1962. First edition. Cloth. A smart collection of three volumes from English writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley. Three volumes. First edition. Written by Aldous Leonard Huxley, an English writer and philosopher, who wrote many books including non-fiction works, essays, narratives, and poems. This set contains: Ape and Essence: A Novel, 1949. Set in a dystopia, this piece is largely a satire of the rise of large-scale warfare and warmongering in the twentieth century, and presents a pessimistic view of the politics of mutually assured destruction. Collected Short Stories, 1957. A Collection of twenty-one short stories, including: Happily Ever After, The Tilloston Banquet, and Hubert and Minnie. Island, 1962. A utopian manifesto and novel which, although it has a plot, largely serves to further conceptual explorations rather than setting up and resolving conventional narrative tension. It is the account of Will Farnaby, a cynical journalist who is shipwrecked on the fictional island of Pala. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrappers are also smart with light wear and minor chipping to the panel edges. Minor loss to the head and tail of the spine of Ape and Essence, with sympathetic repairs made with tape to the internal side. Light sunning to the spines with the odd small mark to the panels. The odd small closed tear to panel edges. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good/Very Good.

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