aldous huxley

Jul 31

1920s reviews

Simon

Not a recommended reading list, just a convenient list in one place of all my reviews of books about, or from, the 1920s. Mostly fiction, with links off to history reviews. The Twenties by Alan Jenkins (1974) First World War memoirs Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger (1920) In Our Time by Ernest...

novel short stories play agatha christie john buchan d.h. lawrence ernest hemingway arthur conan doyle margery allingham mikhail sholokhov men without women crome yellow aldous huxley the square egg and other sketches p.g. wodehouse queen lucia the future of an illusion evelyn waugh we the green hat women in love a hunger artist the white guard berlin alexanderplatz noel coward our betters gentlemen prefer blondes: the intimate diary of a professional lady mornings in mexico the fox the crime at black dudley jaroslav hašek summer lightning warsaw 1920 andré breton the three hostages little caesar the mystery of the blue train heart of a dog the trial the big four dorothy l. sayers clouds of witness debits and credits easy virtue alan jenkins e.f. benson george grosz robert graves carry on gentlemen prefer blondes volume three: the glorious licking rudyard kipling mikhail bulgakov the dancing floor graham greene the sun also rises somme and ancre john mcnab the twenties the captain's doll lenin saki storm of steel the constant wife the good soldier svejk hay fever red cavalry jacob's room tales from the don the woman who rode away and other stories the secret of chimneys ashenden whose body? the great gatsby the inimitable jeeves lucia in london the plumed serpent private lives all quiet on the western front ashenden: or the british agent virginia woolf erich maria remarque hermann hesse w.r. burnett decline and fall epilogue to volume one the diamond as big as the ritz my man jeeves der steppenwolf the dain curse the beautiful and damned michael arlen the castle sigmund freud investigations of a dog volume four: the glorious licking continues goodbye to all that a small yes and a big no the murder of roger ackroyd the circle in our time ernst jünger edmund blunden an autobiographical study undertones of war the vortex bernice bobs her hair volume two: at the front the question of lay analysis kangaroo miss mapp leave it to psmith the murder on the links lady chatterley's lover dashiell hammett the maracot deep max brod’s postscript to the trial the seven dials mystery evgeny zamyatin the sacred flame alfred döblin the case-book of sherlock holmes the mysterious affair at styles nadja point counter point jeeves fallen angels to the lighthouse the ladybird max brod this side of paradise william somerset maugham the painted veil the secret adversary the burrow huntingtower a room of one's own red harvest frederic manning aaron's rod the life of jaroslav hašek the man within isaac babel st mawr orlando: a biography f.scott fitzgerald anita loos franz kafka siddhārtha antic hay the virgin and the gipsy mrs dalloway those barren leaves the middle parts of fortune volume one: behind the lines

Jul 29

The Real and the Romantic: English Art Between Two World Wars by Frances Spalding (2022)

Simon

‘For the first time since the eighteenth century, England is making a real contribution to an international art.’ (Nicolete Gray, impresario of the 1936 Abstract and Concrete exhibition, 1936. But was it?) ‘The Real and the Romantic: English Art Between Two World Wars’ by Frances Spalding is a...

painting raymond williams art futurism photography history fascism architecture bauhaus photojournalism modernism design abstraction gerard manley hopkins mondrian etching d.h. lawrence anti-fascism political art frida kahlo british art women artists constructivism surrealism max ernst printmaking romanticism abstract art t.s. eliot fauvism landscape painting avant-garde second world war social realism african art new objectivity walter gropius somerset maugham wyndham lewis roger fry interwar britain aldous huxley john nash wood engraving raymond mortimer sophie brzeska gluck john armstrong tate britain henri gaudier-brzeska rodrigo moynihan cezanne rex whistler feminist art history picasso james boswell laura knight alfred wolmark claude rogers unit one keith vaughan keith piper dora carrington mayor gallery claude flight alfred wallis rock drill stanley spencer joseph southall euston road school andré breton war memorials barbara hepworth alexander rodchenko lill tschudi jacob epstein käthe kollwitz post-war culture bloomsbury group edward bawden giacometti eric ravilious christopher wood fernand leger gwen john george grosz algernon newton neo-romanticism nation's war paintings graham sutherland reginald brill misha black cultural conservatism london group william blake modernist landscape linocuts winifred nicholson giorgio de chirico documentary art geoffrey tibble jean hélion group x felicity ashbee myfanwy evans frances spalding mural painting british surrealism formalism great war grace pailthorpe spanish civil war barbara key-seymer john singer sargent john minton paule vézelay leonora carrington rené magritte leica camera english art emily dickinson dadaism remembrance communist artists interwar art graham bell wood engraving society gerald brockhurst wolfgang suschitzky herbert read international surrealist exhibition british empire charles sims charles cundall vorticism ben nicholson amedeo modigliani king george vi mass culture cultural history war art joan miro c.r.w. nevinson winifred knights samuel palmer tristram hillier robert colquhoun kandinsky john piper john tunnard frances hodgkins stanley william hayter cubism glyn philpot edward wadsworth duncan grant thames and hudson paul nash harold harvey british modernism mervyn peake abstract and concrete exhibition nicolete gray f.l. griggs victoria and albert museum ivon hitchens salvador dalí pearl binder l.s. lowry artists against fascism and war imperial war museum london art world wilfred owen el lissitzky marlow moss patrick heron pavel tchelitchew tomb of the unknown soldier matthew smith experimental art henry moore victor pasmore ceri richards cyril power brancusi michael ayrton john craxton first world war art criticism objective abstractions edward burra julian trevelyan robert macbryde the real and the romantic official war artists edith tudor-hart tirzah garwood cedric morris art historiography society of wood engravers william townsend art between the wars east london group cenotaph sybil andrews seven and five society jean arp ithell colquhoun clifford rowe poster art clive branson socialist art william coldstream xxi gallery concrete art slade art school post-impressionism evelyn dunbar significant form conservative art women's work exhibition

Jul 28

The Twenties by Alan Jenkins (1974)

Simon

Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a reverie of long days and nights; destined finally to go out into that dirty gray turmoil to follow love and pride; a new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success;...

history jazz william morris lost generation bauhaus new york modernism bbc radio advertising soviet union daily mail fashion britain agatha christie paris india hollywood general strike louis armstrong d.h. lawrence winston churchill mickey mouse graf zeppelin ernest hemingway tallulah bankhead america westminster ulysses arthur conan doyle madison square garden fletcher henderson james joyce margery allingham somerset maugham krenek gertrude lawrence alfred adler aldous huxley british gazette p.g. wodehouse woodrow wilson hays code greco-turkish war evelyn waugh imperial airways gloria swanson radio corporation of america charles ives empire exhibition the green hat maurice ravel germaine tailleferre vanessa bell alexander fleming john reith darius milhaud cab calloway noel coward le corbusier prince of wales empire state building jack payne ben hecht fatty arbuckle dan white j.j.r. macleod treaty of neuilly oxford eddie condon mahatma gandhi milton ager ottoman empire rhapsody in blue ralph vaughan williams antibes organised crime felix the cat b.f. goodrich bloomsbury group ray henderson gertrude ederle reverend david railton calvin coolidge dorothy l. sayers zinoviev letter fred astaire douglas fairbanks oscar hammerstein ii alan jenkins fats waller e.f. benson frank lloyd wright myrna loy hassan zelda fitzgerald william jennings bryan americanisation don bradman spirit of st louis constance lambert detective fiction brooklands bognor regis herbert hoover coleman hawkins harold lloyd paris peace conference ellery queen soho kurt weill hugo eckener walter donaldson babe ruth lady louis mountbatten lady diana cooper american civil liberties union marion davies wembley ronald colman claud cockburn cunard will hays iris storm gerald murphy international style gene tunney bix beiderbecke amritsar massacre journey's end sir thomas beecham the sheikh marx brothers tender is the night walter winchell cotton club treaty of saint germain runnin' wild wolcott gibbs mary pickford the thief of baghdad treaty of lausanne jack dempsey stanley baldwin virginia woolf abdication crisis francis poulenc marchioness of londonderry adele astaire british empire consumer culture chrysler building paul merton king george v prohibition women’s suffrage addison mizner pee wee russell savoy ballroom this happy breed sara murphy westinghouse george gershwin duke ellington saturday evening post miami beach frederick delius lady ribblesdale weimar germany beverley nichols crazy pavements michael arlen sigmund freud cliveden set palm beach cliveden warren g. harding rudolph valentino david lloyd-george mary phelps jacob hugh gaitskell elmer gantry cecil beaton josephine baker ma metrick flappers edward elgar les six anna neagle john gilbert jack hobbs whitehall hindemith george vi imperial conference coco chanel an american in paris charlie chaplin john maynard keynes bobby jones treaty of trianon flying scotsman sinclair lewis jack hylton dashiell hammett william walton scopes trial paul whiteman hunger march samuel barber ramsay macdonald nancy astor arthur honegger margaret sanger louis durey jack yellen georges auric stockhausen clarence darrow ivy williams isadora duncan charles lindbergh fascist italy butler act chanak crisis yankee stadium bud freeman contraception treaty of sèvres helena rubinstein art deco roaring twenties ciro's elinor glyn nancy cunard helena normanton katherine mansfield queen mary this side of paradise charles best george bernard shaw laurence olivier mapp and lucia mezz mezzrow won't go to wembley association land of hope and glory james p. johnson duchess of buccleuch kellogg-briand pact muggsy spanier edith evans storyville bright young things queen elizabeth ii king oliver cole porter charleston elizabeth arden lillian gish the british worker windsor locarno pact ira gershwin early success the jazz singer treaty of versailles stravinsky jazz age al capone e.m. forster joe venuti helen wills jarrow march al jolson clara bow kitkat club lady lavery threepenny opera cenotaph oxford bags anglo-americana algonquin round table white sox st margaret's westminster kdka trade union lytton strachey league of nations lady elizabeth bowes-lyon marie stopes irving berlin vincent youmans aaron copland les biches f.scott fitzgerald lee miller william heinemann bessie smith frederick banting john t. scopes jerome kern embassy club henry wood new yorker jelly roll morton lord louis mountbatten general electric

Jul 27

Aldous Huxley reviews

Simon

These are the works by Aldous Huxley (1894 to 1963) which I’ve read and reviewed to date, arranged by genre and year of publication. The list will be updated as I read any more. Recommendations If you know nothing about Huxley, start with the book he’s most famous for, Brave New World, which also...

novel satire science fiction short stories novels essays travel writing island english literature crome yellow the 1920s aldous huxley after many a summer london bohemia brave new world revisited john middleton murray the rest cure the hidden huxley the hidden huxley: contempt and compassion for the masses 1920 to 1936 the doors of perception mescaline jo stoyte ape and essence eyeless in gaza jesting pilate the little mexican and other stories myra viveash two or three graces and other stories heaven and hell brief candles mortal coils project gutenberg foreword to brave new world the prospects of fascism in england the gioconda smile jeremy pordage point counter point mrs aldwinkle nancy cunard katherine mansfield a note on eugenics: the battle between inferior and superior people for the possession of the earth' the 1930s the portrait dh lawrence antic hay david bradshaw those barren leaves brave new world

Jul 24

Island by Aldous Huxley (1962)

Simon

‘What charming young people!’ (The protagonist of ‘Island’, cynical journalist Will Farnaby, commenting on the lovely young Palanese couple, Radhu and Ranga, page 98) ‘Underdeveloped countries… don’t have to follow your example. They’re still free to take the road we’ve taken – the road of applied...

buddhism novel spirituality meditation aristotle enlightenment marriage shakespeare proust rembrandt jesus social engineering pascal ecology transcendence island environmentalism voltaire tiger eugenics hinduism macbeth english literature martin luther freud aldous huxley after many a summer progressive education east and west brainwashing cezanne radha appu moksha aunt mary high renaissance brave new world revisited trotsky moksha-medicine mahayana buddhism thomas aquinas mrs pym rothamsted experimental station miss tuke the doors of perception lord acton robespierre ninon de lenclos ranga karakuran rendang-lobo psychedelics mrs harbottle lenin gautama buddha dr robert macphail behavioural psychology the rani mary sarojini macphail individualism thomas malthus juliana of norwich susila macphail mr menon will farnaby social conditioning mutual adoption clubs molly farnaby andaman islands aesop's fables dr andrew macphail murugan mailendra abdul bahu overpopulation child-rearing sumatra meister eckhart william farnaby lord joseph aldehyde fertility control arabian nights tom krishna macphail lakshmi dr bahu maithuna selective breeding utopian society dugald macphail mystical experience pala colonel dipa tantra oil politics william james nietzsche hans memling vuillard buddha michelangelo julie de lespinasse tantric sex oedipus in pala vijaya bhattacharya st paul havelock ellis joe aldehyde shanta oedipus hallucinogens saint augustine utopian fiction leela rao brave new world mozart population control