Review
Perusing Volume One, I was struck by the sensitivity and the unerring perception in these unknown reviews, ultimately my most enjoyable reading of the year. (Robert Craft
Times Literary Supplement, (Books Of The Year, Dec.) )
The editors...have done their job with commendable thoroughness. (P. N. Furbank
Times Literary Supplement )
An important and admirable publishing event. (
Atlantic Monthly )
Huxley was among the few writers who played with ideas so freely, so gaily, with such virtuosity, that the responsive reader was dazzled and excited. (Isaiah Berlin )
A remarkable publishing event...these volumes return Huxley from our forgetfulness so as to enjoy his fine intelligence, prose and exemplary strengths. (Jeffrey Hart
Washington Times )
His reading was immense, his taste was impeccable, and his ear acute...His place in English literature is unique and is certainly assured. (T. S. Eliot )
There is much to enjoy in these volumes...they are important as a document of his times. (
Economist )
He writes with an easy assurance and a command of classical and modern cross-references. (Christopher Hitchens
Los Angeles Times )
To read all the essays in sequence is like being enrolled at the college of your dreams. (
The New Yorker )
Book Description
These first two volumes of a projected six collect the complete essays of one of the major writers of the 20th century. His reading was immense, his taste impeccable, and his ear acute....His place in English literature is unique and is certainly assured. --T. S. Eliot. Edited with Commentary by Robert S. Baker and James Sexton.