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Gioconda Smile by Aldous Huxley

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Gioconda Smile by Aldous Huxley

There are three good friends: a devoted husband, a pathetically invalid wife, and a woman friend of the family. Gradually we learn that there is a terrifying truth beneath the appearance of their friendship. It has an ending you have never seen before, and it will give you the shock of your life.
Huxley, Aldous: -

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) was an English writer and philosopher. Born in Godalming, Huxley--the grandson of famed zoologist Thomas Henry Huxley and grandnephew of poet and critic Matthew Arnold--was raised in a family with wide-ranging intellectual interests. He attended Eton College as a youth before enrolling at Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied English literature and edited Oxford Poetry. An eye disease Huxley contracted around this time ended his hopes of studying medicine and serving in the Great War, and he instead graduated with a BA in 1916. After a brief stint teaching French at Eton College--among his pupils was Eric Blair, later to write under the pen-name George Orwell--and several years working for Brynner and Mond, a chemical company, Orwell began writing in earnest. The first decade of his career saw him publish four novels, including Crome Yellow (1921) and Point Counter Point (1928). These early works of social satire, inspired in part by his acquaintance with members of the Bloomsbury Group, including Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead, as well as by his friendship with D.H. Lawrence, gave way in the 1930s to more serious works of fiction, including the dystopian classic Brave New World (1932) and Eyeless in Gaza (1936), a novel with pacifist themes. In 1937, Huxley moved with his wife, Maria, and son, Matthew, to Los Angeles, where he would live, apart from a period in Taos, New Mexico, for the rest of his life. Over the next three decades, Huxley continued to publish award-winning works of fiction, devoted himself to Vedantism, and wrote works on mysticism, Eastern and Western philosophies, and the use of psychedelic drugs.

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ISBN 13 9780573011597
ISBN 10 0573011591
Title Gioconda Smile
Author Aldous Huxley
Series Acting Edition S
Condition Non disponible
Binding type Paperback
Publisher Samuel French Ltd
Year published 2014-12-31
Number of pages 84
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