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 This change in Huxley's thinking underlies the previously unpublished play Now More Than Ever.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 A "thinker's play" that has never been produced on stage, it is the last previously unpublished piece of Huxley's major writings and immensely important to understanding his development as a writer.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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... look at this . Here's the little surprise I wanted to show you . ( He opens the case and pulls out a necklace of pearls and emeralds . ) What do you think of that ? ( JOAN ex- amines it in silence . BARMBY approaches and looks at it ...
... look here , old man , don't let's misunderstand one another . LIDGATE : But I assure you , I don't misunderstand you . On the con- trary , I understand you only too well . You want to play a dirty trick on me . Well , it's only natural ...
... looks out . Beyond the panes is the early dark- ness of a winter evening . The silhouette of a bare tree lifts its black ... look- ing out ; then sighs , turns round and comes back into the room . ) I was looking at the night . BARMBY ...