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After the Fireworks

Three Novellas

After the Fireworks( )
Author: Huxley, Aldous
Giddins, Gary
Foreword by: Giddins, Gary
Parks, Tom
Read by: Parks, Tom
Page, Michael
ISBN:978-1-4417-3895-0
Publication Date:Oct 2016
Publisher:HarperCollins Canada, Limited
Imprint:HarperPerennial
Book Format:CD-Audio
List Price:USD $59.99
Book Description:

Three of Aldous Huxley's lost pieces of short fiction are collected for the first time. In the title novella, a writer enters a dangerous affair with a fan. Published one year before Brave New World and back in print for the first time since, After the Fireworks is Huxley at the height of his powers.

Author Biography
Huxley, Aldous (Author)
Aldous Huxley was born on July 26, 1894, in Surrey, England, into a distinguished scientific and literary family; his grandfather was the noted scientist and writer, T.H. Huxley. Following an eye illness at age 16 that resulted in near-blindness, Huxley abandoned hope of a career in medicine and turned instead to literature, attending Oxford University and graduating with honors.

While at Oxford, he published two volumes of poetry. Crome Yellow, his first novel, was published in 1927 followed by Antic Hay, Those Barren Leaves, and Point Counter Point. His most famous novel, Brave New World, published in 1932, is a science fiction classic about a futuristic society controlled by technology. In all, Huxley produced 47 works during his long career,

In 1947, Huxley moved with his family to southern California. During the 1950s, he experimented with mescaline and LSD. Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell, both works of nonfiction, were based on his experiences while taking mescaline under supervision.

In 1959, Aldous Huxley received the Award of Merit for the Novel from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died on November 22, 1963.

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