The Genius and the Goddess – Aldous Huxley (1955) (1st ed)

S$78.00

The Genius and the Goddess – Aldous Huxley (1955) (1st ed)

S$78.00

Title: The Genius and the Goddess

Author: Aldous Huxley

Publisher: Harper & Brothers, New York, 1955. First edition.

Condition: Hardcover, no dust jacket. Very good. Previous owner’s bookplate on endpaper, slight fold to corner of title page, very slight tanning. No other defect.

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About the book (from Goodreads):

Thirty years ago, ecstasy and torment took hold of John Rivers, shocking him out of “half-baked imbecility into something more nearly resembling the human form.” He had an affair with the wife of his mentor, Henry Maartens–a pathbreaking physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize, and a figure of blinding brilliance–bringing the couple to ruin. Now, on Christmas Eve while a small grandson sleeps upstairs, John Rivers is moved to set the record straight about the great man and the radiant, elemental creature he married, who viewed the renowned genius through undazzled eyes.

About Huxley (from Wikipedia):

Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and a prominent member of the Huxley family. Best known for his novels including Brave New World, set in a dystopian London, The Doors of Perception, which recalls experiences when taking a psychedelic drug, and a wide-ranging output of essays, Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and published short stories, poetry, travel writing, film stories and scripts. He spent the later part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death.

Huxley was a humanist, pacifist, and satirist. He became deeply concerned that human beings might become subjugated through the sophisticated use of the mass media or mood-altering drugs, or tragically impacted by misunderstanding or the misapplication of increasingly sophisticated technology.

Huxley later became interested in spiritual subjects such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism, in particular, Universalism. He is also well known for his use of psychedelic drugs. By the end of his life Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his time.