{"id":10333,"date":"2019-07-26T17:37:39","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T13:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/?p=10333"},"modified":"2019-07-26T17:37:44","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T13:37:44","slug":"happy-brave-new-birthday-aldous-huxley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/happy-brave-new-birthday-aldous-huxley\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy brave new birthday, Aldous Huxley!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/huxley.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/huxley.jpg 600w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/huxley-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/huxley-190x100.jpg 190w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/huxley-280x147.jpg 280w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/huxley-445x234.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption> <strong>A young Aldous Huxley.\u00a0(Huxley family photo \/ file)<\/strong> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The British novelist and intellectual, and\nlongtime Southern California resident, remains best known for \u201cBrave New\nWorld,\u201d his 1932 novel about a fascist government that controls its population\nwith strict rules and widely available mind-numbing drugs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still widely taught in schools today, the book received mostly (but not uniformly) positive reviews when it was released just a few years before dictators would seize power in Germany, Spain and other European countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Books adapted for the screen by Aldous Huxely<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"333\" src=\"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"10343\" data-link=\"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/?attachment_id=10343\" class=\"wp-image-10343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1-7.jpg 220w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1-7-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1-7-190x288.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"191\" height=\"291\" src=\"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"10344\" data-link=\"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/?attachment_id=10344\" class=\"wp-image-10344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2-7.jpg 191w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2-7-190x289.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"334\" src=\"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/3-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"10345\" data-link=\"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/?attachment_id=10345\" class=\"wp-image-10345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/3-6.jpg 220w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/3-6-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/3-6-190x288.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aldous Huxley, most famous for his literature of dystopias and drug trips, wrote the screenplays for the first film adaptation of\u00a0<em>Pride and Prejudice<\/em>\u00a0(1940) and, with John Houseman and director Robert Stevenson, an early adaptation of\u00a0<em>Jane Eyre<\/em>\u00a0(1943). Not only that, but he might have been the screenwriter for\u00a0<em>Alice in Wonderland\u00a0<\/em>(this, of course, being quite a bit closer to the dystopia\/drug trip fame).\u00a0Knowing that Huxley was a massive fan of Lewis Carroll\u2019s\u00a0<em>Alice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland<\/em>, Walt Disney contacted the writer in 1945 and commissioned a script for a combination live action and animated adaptation. He completed a draft, and the two icons worked on it together, but in the end Disney felt it was \u201c<em>too Literally<\/em> .\u201d He was paid, and a wholly different and fully animated version (the one you know) was released in 1951. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\" style=\"grid-template-columns:25% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"309\" height=\"499\" src=\"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/41gn8KH4GvL._SX307_BO1204203200_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/41gn8KH4GvL._SX307_BO1204203200_.jpg 309w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/41gn8KH4GvL._SX307_BO1204203200_-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/41gn8KH4GvL._SX307_BO1204203200_-190x307.jpg 190w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/41gn8KH4GvL._SX307_BO1204203200_-280x452.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 309px) 100vw, 309px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"title\">Psychedelics: Vintage Minis<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Could drugs offer a new way of seeing the world? In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes everything, from the flowers in a vase to the creases in his trousers, was transformed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <strong>Price: 7 GEL<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <strong>Bookshop:<\/strong>\u00a0#14 Chavchavadze Ave <strong> \u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/lat.ms\/2Y8knC8\">https:\/\/lat.ms\/2Y8knC8<\/a>  |  <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2mIR3Nh\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2mIR3Nh<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-2-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-2-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British novelist and intellectual, and longtime Southern California resident, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10363,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1925],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","cat_1925"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10333"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10364,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10333\/revisions\/10364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}