Aldous Huxley bibliography

List of works by Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley
bibliography
Books↙5
Novels↙15
Articles↙51
Stories↙24
Collections↙30
Pamphlets↙5
Poems↙103
Plays↙8
Scripts↙5
Letters↙1
References and footnotes

The following bibliography of Aldous Huxley provides a chronological list of the published works of English writer Aldous Huxley (1894–1963). It includes his fiction and non-fiction, both published during his lifetime and posthumously.[1][2]

Huxley was a writer and philosopher.[3][4][5][6] He wrote nearly fifty books[7][8]—both novels and non-fiction works—as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems. Born into the prominent Huxley family, he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford with an undergraduate degree in English literature. Early in his career, he published short stories and poetry and edited the literary magazine Oxford Poetry, before going on to publish travel writing, satire, and screenplays. He spent the latter part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death.[9] By the end of his life, Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time.[10] He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times[11] and was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 1962.[12]

Huxley was a humanist and pacifist. He grew interested in philosophical mysticism[13][14] and universalism,[15] addressing these subjects with works such as The Perennial Philosophy (1945)—which illustrates commonalities between Western and Eastern mysticism—and The Doors of Perception (1954)—which interprets his own psychedelic experience with mescaline. In his most famous novel Brave New World (1932) and his final novel Island (1962), he presented his vision of dystopia and utopia, respectively.

Fiction

Novels

Short stories

Collections:

  • Limbo (1920), collection of 5 short stories, 1 novelette and 1 play:
    "Farcical History of Richard Greenow" (novelette), "Happily Ever After", "Eupompus Gave Splendour to Art by Numbers", "Happy Families" (play), "Cynthia", "The Bookshop", "The Death of Lully"
  • Mortal Coils (1922), collection of 3 short stories, 1 novelette and 1 play:
    "The Gioconda Smile" (novelette), "Permutations Among the Nightingales" (play), "The Tillotson Banquet", "Green Tunnels", "Nuns at Luncheon"
  • Little Mexican and Other Stories (US title: Young Archimedes) (1924), collection of 4 short stories and 2 novelettes/novellas:
    "Uncle Spencer" (novella), "Little Mexican", "Hubert and Minnie", "Fard", "The Portrait", "Young Archimedes" (novelette)
  • Two or Three Graces and Other Stories (1926), collection of 3 short stories and 1 novella:
    "Two or Three Graces" (novella), "Half Holiday", "The Monocle", "Fairy Godmother"
  • Brief Candles (1930), collection of 3 short stories and 1 novella:
    "Chawdron", "The Rest Cure", "The Claxtons", "After the Fireworks" (novella)
  • After the Fireworks: Three Novellas (1936), collection of 3 novellas earlier published in separate short story volumes:
    "After the Fireworks", "Two or Three Graces", "Uncle Spencer"
  • Collected Short Stories (1957) collection of 19 short stories and 2 novelettes earlier published in separate short story volumes and in his novel Crome Yellow:
    From Limbo: "Happily Ever After", "Eupompus Gave Splendour to Art by Numbers", "Cynthia", "The Bookshop", "The Death of Lully"
    From Crome Yellow: "Sir Hercules"
    From Mortal Coils: "The Gioconda Smile" (novelette), "The Tillotson Banquet", "Green Tunnels", "Nuns at Luncheon"
    From Little Mexican and Other Stories: "Little Mexican", "Hubert and Minnie", "Fard", "The Portrait", "Young Archimedes" (novelette)
    From Two or Three Graces and Other Stories: "Half Holiday", "The Monocle", "Fairy Godmother"
    From Brief Candles: "Chawdron", "The Rest Cure", "The Claxtons"

Uncollected short stories:

  • "The Dwarfs" (1921)
  • "Jacob's Hands: A Fable" (co-written in 1940s with Christopher Isherwood; discovered 1997)
  • "The Crows of Pearblossom" (1944; was published in 1967 by Random House as a children's book illustrated by Barbara Cooney; a picture book version illustrated by Sophie Blackall was published in 2011 by Abrams Books for Young Readers)

Plays

  • The Discovery: A Comedy in Five Acts (1924), written by Frances Sheridan, adapted for the modern stage by Huxley
  • The World of Light: A Comedy in Three Acts (1931)[17]
  • Mortal Coils: Play (1948), stage version to novelette "The Gioconda Smile"
  • The Genius and the Goddess (1958), co-written with Betty Wendel, stage version to novel The Genius and the Goddess
  • The Ambassador of Captripedia (1967)
  • Now More Than Ever (2000), lost play discovered by the Department of English Literature, University of Münster, Germany

Poems

Collections:

  • The Burning Wheel (1916), collection of 31 poems:[18]
    "The Burning Wheel", "Doors of the Temple", "Villiers de L'Isle-Adam", "Darkness", "Mole", "The Two Seasons", "Two Realities", "Quotidian Vision", "Vision", "The Mirror", "Variations on a Theme of Laforgue", "Philosophy", "Philoclea in the Forest", "Books and Thoughts", "Contrary to Nature and Aristotle", "Escape", "The Garden", "The Canal", "The Ideal found wanting", "Misplaced Love", "Sonnet", "Sentimental Summer", "The Choice", "The Higher Sensualism", "Sonnet", "Formal Verses", "Perils of the Small Hours", "Complaint", "Return to an Old Home", "Fragment", "The Walk"
  • Jonah (1917), collection of 12 poems:[19]
    "Jonah", "Behemoth", "Minoan Porcelain", "Zoo Celeste", "Sonnet a l'Ingenue", "Dix-Huitieme Siecle", "Hommage a Jules Laforgue", "Sententious Song", "The Oxford Volunteers", "The Contemplative Soul", "The Betrothal of Priapus", "Farewell to the Muses"
  • The Defeat of Youth, and Other Poems (1918), collection of 36 poems:[20]
    "The Defeat of Youth", "Song of Poplars", "The Reef", "Winter Dream", "The Flowers", "The Elms", "Out of the Window", "Inspiration", "Summer Stillness", "Anniversaries", "Italy", "The Alien", "A Little Memory", "Waking", "By the Fire", "Valedictory", "Love Song", "Private Property", "Revelation", "Minoan Porcelain", "The Decameron", "In Uncertainty to a Lady", "Crapulous Impression", "The Life Theoretic", "Complaint of a Poet Manqué", "Social Amenities", "Topiary", "On the Bus", "Points and Lines", "Panic", "Return from Business", "Stanzas", "Poem", "Scenes of the Mind", "L'Après-Midi D'un Faune", "The Louse-Hunters"
  • Leda (1920), collection of 26 poems:[21]
    "Leda", "The Birth of God", "On Hampstead Heath", "Sympathy", "Male and Female Created He Them", "From the Pillar", "Jonah", "Variations on a Theme", "A Melody By Scarlatti", "A Sunset", "Life and Art", "First Philosopher's Song", "Second Philosopher's Song", "Fifth Philosopher's Song", "Ninth Philosopher's Song", "Morning Scene", "Verrey's", "Frascati's", "Fatigue", "The Merry-Go-Round", "Back Streets", "Last Things", "Gothic", "Evening Party", "Beauty", "Soles Occidere et Redire Possunt"
  • Selected Poems (1925), collection of 41 poems published in previous collections:[22]
    "Song of Poplars", "The Reef", "The Flowers", "The Elms", "Out of the Window", "Summer Stillness", "Inspiration", "Anniversaries", "Italy", "The Alien", "A Little Memory", "Waking", "By the Fire", "Valedictory", "Private Property", "Revelation", "Minoan Porcelain", "In Uncertainty to a Lady", "Crapulous Impression", "Complaint of a Poet Manqué", "Social Amenities", "Topiary", "On the Bus", "Points and Lines", "Panic", "Stanzas", "Poem", "Scenes of the Mind", "L'Après-Midi d'un Faune", "Mole", "Two Realities", "Quotidian Vision", "The Mirror", "Variations on a Theme of Laforgue", "Philosophy", "Philoclea in the Forest", "Books and Thoughts", "The Higher Sensualism", "Formal Verses", "Perils of the Small Hours", "Return to an Old Home"
  • Arabia Infelix and Other Poems (1929)
  • The Cicadas and Other Poems (1931)
  • The Collected Poetry of Aldous Huxley (1971), collection of most of the poems contained in The Burning Wheel, The Defeat of Youth, and Other Poems, Leda, and The Cicadas and Other Poems

Screenplays

Non-fiction

Articles

Written for Vedanta and the West:

  • "Distractions" (1941)
  • "Distractions II" (1941)
  • "Action and Contemplation" (1941)
  • "An Appreciation" (1941)
  • "The Yellow Mustard" (1941)
  • "Lines" (1941)
  • "Some Reflections of the Lord's Prayer" (1941)
  • "Reflections of the Lord's Prayer" (1942)
  • "Reflections of the Lord's Prayer II" (1942)
  • "Words and Reality" (1942)
  • "Readings in Mysticism" (1942)
  • "Man and Reality" (1942)
  • "The Magical and the Spiritual" (1942)
  • "Religion and Time" (1943)
  • "Idolatry" (1943)
  • "Religion and Temperament" (1943)
  • "A Note on the Bhagavatam" (1943)
  • "Seven Meditations" (1943)
  • "On a Sentence From Shakespeare" (1944)
  • "The Minimum Working Hypothesis" (1944)
  • "From a Notebook" (1944)
  • "The Philosophy of the Saints" (1944)
  • "That Art Thou" (1945)
  • "That Art Thou II" (1945)
  • "The Nature of the Ground" (1945)
  • "The Nature of the Ground II" (1945)
  • "God in the World" (1945)
  • "Origins and Consequences of Some Contemporary Thought-Patterns" (1946)
  • "The Sixth Patriarch" (1946)
  • "Some Reflections on Time" (1946)
  • "Reflections on Progress" (1947)
  • "Further Reflections on Progress" (1947)
  • "William Law" (1947)
  • "Notes on Zen" (1947)
  • "Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread" (1948)
  • "A Note on Gandhi" (1948)
  • "Art and Religion" (1949)
  • "Foreword to an Essay on the Indian Philosophy of Peace" (1950)
  • "A Note on Enlightenment" (1952)
  • "Substitutes for Liberation" (1952)
  • "The Desert" (1954)
  • "A Note on Patanjali" (1954)
  • "Who Are We?" (1955)
  • "Foreword to the Supreme Doctrine" (1956)
  • "Knowledge and Understanding" (1956)
  • "The 'Inanimate' is Alive" (1957)
  • "Symbol and Immediate Experience" (1960)

Essays

Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience 1931-1963, edited by Michael Horowitz and Cynthia Palmer, with introductions by Albert Hofmann and Alexander Shulgin. New York: Stonehill, 1977

Collections:

  • On the Margin: Notes and Essays (1923)
  • Essays New and Old (1926)
  • Proper Studies: The Proper Study of Mankind Is Man (1927)
  • Do What You Will (1929)[24]
  • Holy Face and Other Essays (1929)
  • Vulgarity in Literature: Digressions from a Theme (1930)
  • Music at Night and Other Essays (1931)
  • Texts and Pretexts: An Anthology with Commentaries (1932)
  • What are you going to do about it? The case for reconstructive Peace (1936)
  • The Olive Tree and Other Essays (1936)[25]
  • Ends and Means: An Enquiry into the Nature of Ideals and the Methods Employed for their Realization (1937), reissued in 2012 by Transaction Publishers with a new introduction "Pacifism and Non-Attachment" by Howard G. Schneiderman
  • Words and their Meanings (1940)
  • Grey Eminence (1941)
  • The Double Crisis (1949)
  • Themes and Variations (1950)
  • Adonis and the Alphabet and Other Essays (US title: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow) (1956)[26]
  • Collected Essays (1958)
  • Brave New World Revisited (1958)
  • On Art and Artists: Literature, Painting, Architecture, Music (1960)
  • Literature and Science (1963)
  • Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience 1931–1963 (1977)
  • The Human Situation: Lectures at Santa Barbara, 1959 (1977)
  • Huxley and God: Essays (1991), essays published in the magazine Vedanta and the West between 1941 and 1960

Uncollected essays:

Pamphlets

  • Pacifism and Philosophy (1935)
  • 1936 . . . PEACE? (1936)
  • What Are You Going to Do about It?: The Case for Constructive Peace (1936)
  • The Most Agreeable Vice (1938)
  • The Politics of Ecology: The Question of Survival (1963)

As editor:

  • An Encyclopedia of Pacifism (1937)[27]

Travel books

  • Along the Road: Notes and Essays of a Tourist (1925)
  • Jesting Pilate, or Jesting Pilate: The Diary of a Journey, or Jesting Pilate: An Intellectual Holiday (1926)
  • Beyond the Mexique Bay (1934)

Others

As illustrator:

  • They Still Draw Pictures: A collection of 60 drawings made by Spanish children during the war (1938), author The Spanish Child Welfare Association[28]

Audio recordings

  • Knowledge and Understanding (1955), A lecture given at the Hollywood Temple of the Vedanta Society of Southern California [29][30]
  • Who Are We? (1955), A lecture given at the Hollywood Temple of the Vedanta Society of Southern California [30][31]

References

  1. ^ Claire John Eschelbach; Joyce Lee Shober (1961). Aldous Huxley. University of California Press. p. 17. GGKEY:5UP9C4T4NSF.
  2. ^ Patrick M. O'Neil (2004). Great World Writers: Twentieth Century. Marshall Cavendish. p. 608. ISBN 978-0-7614-7473-9.
  3. ^ Watt, Donald, ed. (1975). Aldous Huxley. Routledge. p. 366. ISBN 978-0-415-15915-9. Inge's agreement with Huxley on several essential points indicates the respect Huxley's position commanded from some important philosophers … And now we have a book by Aldous Huxley, duly labelled The Perennial Philosophy. … He is now quite definitely a mystical philosopher.
  4. ^ Sion, Ronald T. (2010). Aldous Huxley and the Search for Meaning: A Study of the Eleven Novels. McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 2. ISBN 978-0-7864-4746-6. Aldous Huxley, as a writer of fiction in the 20th century, willingly assumes the role of a modern philosopher-king or literary prophet by examining the essence of what it means to be human in the modern age. … Huxley was a prolific genius who was always searching throughout his life for an understanding of self and one's place within the universe.
  5. ^ Reiff, Raychel Haugrud (2010). Aldous Huxley: Brave New World. Marshall Cavendish Corporation. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-7614-4278-3. He was also a philosopher, mystic, social prophet, political thinker, and world traveler who had a detailed knowledge of music, medicine, science, technology, history, literature and Eastern religions.
  6. ^ Sawyer, Dana (2002). Aldous Huxley: A Biography. The Crossroad Publishing Company. p. 187. ISBN 978-0-8245-1987-2. Huxley was a philosopher but his viewpoint was not determined by the intellect alone. He believed the rational mind could only speculate about truth and never find it directly.
  7. ^ Raychel Haugrud Reiff, Aldous Huxley: Brave New World, Marshall Cavendish (2009), p. 101
  8. ^ Dana Sawyer in M. Keith Booker (ed.), Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics: H-R, Greenwood Publishing Group (2005), p. 359
  9. ^ "The Britons who made their mark on LA". Daily Telegraph. 11 September 2011. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
  10. ^ Thody, Philipe (1973)
  11. ^ "Nomination Database: Aldous Huxley". Nobel Prize.org. Retrieved 19 March 2015
  12. ^ "Companions of Literature" Archived 2 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine . Royal Society of Literature. Retrieved 5 January 2015
  13. ^ Thody, Philipe (1973). Huxley: A Biographical Introduction. Scribner. ISBN 978-0-289-70188-1.
  14. ^ David K. Dunaway (1995). Aldous Huxley Recollected: An Oral History. Rowman Altamira. p. 90. ISBN 978-0-7619-9065-9.
  15. ^ Roy, Sumita (2003), Aldous Huxley And Indian Thought, Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd
  16. ^ The Devils of Loudun at Faded Page (Canada)
  17. ^ Full text of play The World of Light: A Comedy in Three Acts
  18. ^ The Burning Wheel at Project Gutenberg
  19. ^ Jonah at Project Gutenberg
  20. ^ The Defeat of Youth, and Other Poems at Project Gutenberg
  21. ^ Leda at Project Gutenberg
  22. ^ Selected Poems at Project Gutenberg
  23. ^ Bradshaw, David (1993). "Introduction". Aldous Huxley's "Those Barren Leaves" (Vintage Classics, 2005). Vintage, Random House, 20 Vauxhall Brigade Road, London. xii.
  24. ^ Full text of essay collection Do What You Will.
  25. ^ Full text of essay collection The Olive Tree and Other Essays.
  26. ^ Huxley, Aldous (1975). Adonis and the alphabet, and other essays. Internet Archive. London : Chatto & Windus. ISBN 978-0-7011-2138-9.
  27. ^ Full text of pamphlet An Encyclopedia of Pacifism.
  28. ^ They Still Draw Pictures: A collection of 60 drawings made by Spanish children during the war at Faded Page (Canada)
  29. ^ "Knowledge and Understanding". AllMusic. Retrieved 8 March 2013.
  30. ^ a b "Note on lecturing in Santa Barbara". Pooler-georgia-homepage.com. Archived from the original on 16 January 2013. Retrieved 8 March 2013.
  31. ^ "Who Are We?". AllMusic. Retrieved 8 March 2013.

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Bibliography
Novels
Short stories
Collections
Uncollected
  • "Jacob's Hands: A Fable" (1940s; radio script 1956; published 1997)
  • "The Crows of Pearblossom" (1944; children's book 1967)
Plays
  • The Discovery: A Comedy in Five Acts (1924)
Essays
Collections
Uncollected
Non-fictionScreenplays
  • Pride and Prejudice (1940)
  • Madame Curie (uncredited, 1943)
  • Jane Eyre (1943)
  • A Woman's Vengeance (1947)
Adaptations
  • The Devils of Loudun (opera)
  • The Devils (play)
  • The Devils (film)
  • Brave New World (1980 film)
  • Brave New World (1998 film)
  • Brave New World (TV series)
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