The Olive Tree and Other Essays.
First edition of Aldous Huxley's The Olive Tree and other essays
The Olive Tree and Other Essays.
HUXLEY, Aldous.
Item Number: 126533
London: Chatto & Windus, 1936.
First edition of Huxley’s famed essay collection. Octavo, original cloth. In good condition. Ownership inscription.
One of Huxley's finest collections of essays, The Olive Tree makes a new departure in technique from an of Huxley's previous writings. Included is his now famous Introduction to the letters of D.H. Lawrence, a long essay that considers the influence of books and propaganda, an essay on ‘English Snobbery’, ‘Time and the Machine’ and other diverse subjects, all of which are treated with the wit and the learning to which Mr. Huxley has made us accustomed.
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