After the Fireworks: Three Novellas
Autor Aldous Huxley, Gary Giddinsen Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 oct 2016
In After the Fireworks, three lost classic pieces of short fiction by Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, are collected for the first time, with an original foreword by National Book Critics Circle Award winner Gary Giddins.
In the title novella, Rome is the stunning backdrop for a renowned novelist’s dangerous affair. “Uncle Spencer” is the “exquisite” (New Statesman) tale of an aging World War I veteran’s quest for the lost love he met in a prison during the war, and “Two or Three Graces,” “probably the thing nearest perfection of all that [Huxley] has done” (New Statesman), recounts a destructive writer’s abusive relationship with an impressionable housewife. Now brought back in print for the first time in seventy-five years, the novellas newly collected in After the Fireworks reveal Aldous Huxley at the height of his powers.
Preț: 90.32 lei
Nou
Puncte Express: 135
Preț estimativ în valută:
15.98€ • 18.74$ • 14.04£
15.98€ • 18.74$ • 14.04£
Carte disponibilă
Livrare economică 16-30 ianuarie 26
Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76
Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780062423924
ISBN-10: 0062423924
Pagini: 432
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția HarperPerennial
ISBN-10: 0062423924
Pagini: 432
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția HarperPerennial
V-ar putea interesa
-
The Believers: A NovelZoe HellerPreț: 98.65 lei -
In the First CircleAleksandr I SolzhenitsynPreț: 149.08 lei -
Raven Stole the Moon: A NovelGarth SteinPreț: 100.43 lei -
To Kill a Mockingbird Low Price CDHarper LeePreț: 168.58 lei -
Under the Mercy Trees: A NovelHeather NewtonPreț: 84.57 lei -
Dessa Rose: A NovelSherley A WilliamsPreț: 101.05 lei -
The Oracle of Stamboul: A NovelMichael David LukasPreț: 102.62 lei -
The Return of the SoldierRebecca WestPreț: 68.09 lei -
Visions of Jazz: The First CenturyGary GiddinsPreț: 186.79 lei -
Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second CenturyGary GiddinsPreț: 138.49 lei -
-11%Preț: 165.80 lei186.02 lei -
Rhythm-A-NingGary GiddinsPreț: 125.60 lei -
Drift: StoriesVictoria PattersonPreț: 87.63 lei -
Flight: A NovelSherman AlexiePreț: 90.93 lei -
The FlamethrowersRachel KushnerPreț: 103.41 lei -
Raise Up Off MeHampton HawesPreț: 108.88 lei -
Die ewige PhilosophieAldous HuxleyPreț: 163.33 lei
Textul de pe ultima copertă
In After the Fireworks, three lost classic pieces of short fiction by Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, are collected for the first time, with an original foreword by National Book Critics Circle Award winner Gary Giddins. In the title novella, Rome is the stunning backdrop for a renowned novelist’s dangerous affair. “Uncle Spencer” is the “exquisite” (New Statesman) tale of an aging World War I veteran’s quest for the lost love he met in a prison during the war, and “Two or Three Graces,” “probably the thing nearest perfection of all that [Huxley] has done” (New Statesman), recounts a destructive writer’s abusive relationship with an impressionable housewife. Now brought back in print for the first time in seventy-five years, the novellas newly collected in After the Fireworks reveal Aldous Huxley at the height of his powers.
Recenzii
“’After the Fireworks’ is a major work and a turning point for Huxley, leading directly to Brave New World.” — Gary Giddins
“The psychology of the two individuals is shrewdly mastered. . . . After the Fireworks displays on Huxley’s part a rare but genuine if elusive sympathy as well as a sound perception of human shortcomings.” — New York Times (on After the Fireworks)
“Brilliant. . . . I doubt if there is another living novelist as capable of taking in so much at a glance.” — The Spectator UK (on After the Fireworks)
“Two or Three Graces is probably the thing nearest perfection of all that he has done.” — New Statesman UK (on Two or Three Graces)
“It takes an artist of more than usual gifts to produce 137 quietly exquisite pages in order to lead up to such a delightfully ironical tiger-or-lady ending as that of ‘Uncle Spencer.’” — Literary Review on (Uncle Spencer)
“Aldous Huxley endures as one of the most visionary and unusual minds of the twentieth century.” — Maria Popova, Brain Pickings
“The psychology of the two individuals is shrewdly mastered. . . . After the Fireworks displays on Huxley’s part a rare but genuine if elusive sympathy as well as a sound perception of human shortcomings.” — New York Times (on After the Fireworks)
“Brilliant. . . . I doubt if there is another living novelist as capable of taking in so much at a glance.” — The Spectator UK (on After the Fireworks)
“Two or Three Graces is probably the thing nearest perfection of all that he has done.” — New Statesman UK (on Two or Three Graces)
“It takes an artist of more than usual gifts to produce 137 quietly exquisite pages in order to lead up to such a delightfully ironical tiger-or-lady ending as that of ‘Uncle Spencer.’” — Literary Review on (Uncle Spencer)
“Aldous Huxley endures as one of the most visionary and unusual minds of the twentieth century.” — Maria Popova, Brain Pickings
Notă biografică
Aldous Huxley (1894?1963) is the author of the classic novels Brave New World, Island, Eyeless in Gaza, and The Genius and the Goddess, as well as such critically acclaimed nonfiction works as The Perennial Philosophy and The Doors of Perception. Born in Surrey, England, and educated at Oxford, he died in Los Angeles, California.