Now More Than EverUniversity of Texas Press, 2000 - 123 էջ Over the course of his career, British writer Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) shifted away from elitist social satires and an atheistic outlook toward greater concern for the masses and the use of religious terms and imagery. This change in Huxley's thinking underlies the previously unpublished play Now More Than Ever. Written in 1932-1933 just after Brave New World, Now More Than Ever is a response to the social, economic, and political upheavals of its time. Huxley's protagonist is an idealistic financier whose grandiose schemes for controlling the means of production drive him to swindling and finally to suicide. His fate allows Huxley to expose the evils he perceives in free-market capitalism while pleading the case for national economic planning and the rationalization of Britain's industrial base. This volume contains the full text of Now More Than Ever, which was believed to be lost until 1976, when a copy was found at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center of the University of Texas at Austin. A "thinker's play" that has never been produced on stage, it is the last previously unpublished piece of Huxley's major writings and immensely important to understanding his development as a writer. The editors of this volume have annotated the play for contemporary readers. Their introduction sets the play in the context of Huxley's intellectual life. |
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... hand this evening ? LIDGATE : ( Indignantly . ) You don't mean to say he dared to ... JOAN : Oh , it was all very pure and uncle - ish . But he's one of those people whose hands are always wet . Ugh ! ( She makes a grimace and shudders ...
... hands trumpet - wise to his mouth and calls . ) Wal- ter ! Walter ! ( CLOUGH looks round , smiles , makes a gesture ... hand . ) Thank you a thousand times . JOAN : ( Embarrassed . ) Oh , not at all . I mean LUNATIC : Your sympathy is a ...
... hands and turning away sideways to press her forehead against the arm of the sofa . ) Oh , why are you so beastly to me ... hand on her shoulder . ) I've never meant to hurt you . If you knew how much I cared ! Don't cry . Please . Joan ...