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 This change in Huxley's thinking underlies the previously unpublished play Now More Than Ever.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 A "thinker's play" that has never been produced on stage, it is the last previously unpublished piece of Huxley's major writings and immensely important to understanding his development as a writer.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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... industrial situation.47 As Britain attempted to come to terms with increasing industrial com- petition not only from ... industry into the giant Imperial Chemical Industries Limited ( ICI ) in 1926. In Feb- ruary 1931 , Huxley toured the ...
... industry and to Lidgate's subsequent suicide . Another issue which looms over Now More Than Ever is the spectre of ... Industrial progress means over - production , " Rampion tells Philip Quarles in Point Counter Point , “ means the need ...
... industry since the 1880s . In 1927 , Vickers amalgamated with the Sir W. G. Arm- strong , Whitworth engineering company . “ It would be hard to name an amalgama- tion in industry of equal importance , ” the Times had commented on 4 ...