Music at night & other essays / by Aldous Huxley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, vi, 269 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm

Manufacture:

Edinburgh : Printed in Great Britain by T. and A. Constable Ltd. at the University Press.

Other Title:

Music at night

Place of Publication:

London : Chatto & Windus, 1931.

Contents:

Section I: Tragedy and the whole truth; The rest is silence; Art and the obvious; 'And wanton optics roll the melting eye'; Music at night; Meditation on El Greco

Section II: Meditation in Arundel Street; Meditation on the moon; On grace; Squeak and gibber; Beliefs and actions; Notes on liberty and the boundaries of the Promised Land; On the charms of history and the future of the past

Section III. Obstacle race; To the puritan all things are impure; Document; Points of view; Ethics in Andalusia

Section IV. Foreheads villainous low; The new romanticism; Selected snobberies; The beauty industry; Those personal touches; Wanted, a new pleasure; Sermons in cats.

Notes:

With a half-title.

Price from dust-jacket: 7s. 6d. net.

Light blue cloth covers with blind double-rule border on front and back; spine stamped in gold.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has dust-jacket retained.

OCLC:

2637756