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 This change in Huxley's thinking underlies the previously unpublished play Now More Than Ever.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 A "thinker's play" that has never been produced on stage, it is the last previously unpublished piece of Huxley's major writings and immensely important to understanding his development as a writer.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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... perhaps it's a hopelessly stupid idea - I give you leave to laugh at me if you think so - I had an idea that perhaps you might be persuaded to come and be - well , I don't know how to describe it exactly — a kind of resident philosopher ...
... Perhaps we ought to go at once and concoct our dresses . Peggy said she was just going to paint herself with lipstick and that's all . But I think you ought to go in white . I'll tell you what I'd thought of for you . White shoes and ...
... perhaps , after all , it's only an excuse for my own cowardice . Perhaps I secretly feel I should regret giving it all up - all the comfortable privi- leges . CLOUGH : Yes , you've got a lot to give up . Luckily , I never had as many ...