A
Brief Bibliography
NB. The arrangement is
personal and by no means free from bias. Reprints and other editions make no
attempt to be comprehensive. Their aim is to put the works in some sort of
historical context and to give an idea of their popularity through the years.
Contents, however, are as full and accurate as I could make them. CE =
Collected Edition of the Works of Aldous Huxley. PL = Phoenix Library.
A. Essays
A1. On the Margin
(1923)
A2. Proper Studies
(1927)
A3. Do What You Will
(1929)
A4. Music at Night
(1931)
A5. The Olive Tree
(1936)
A6. Themes and
Variations (1950)
A7. Adonis and the
Alphabet (1956)
A8. Brave New World
Revisited (1958)
B. Non-Fiction
B1. Along the Road
(1925)
B2. Jesting Pilate
(1926)
B3. Beyond the Mexique
Bay (1934)
B4. Ends and Means
(1937)
B5. Grey Eminence
(1941)
B6. The Devils of
Loudun (1952)
B7. The Doors of
Perception / Heaven and Hell (1959)
C. Novels
C1. Crome Yellow (1921)
C2. Antic Hay (1923)
C3. Those Barren Leaves
(1925)
C4. Point Counter Point
(1928)
C5. Brave New World
(1932)
C6. Eyeless in Gaza
(1936)
C7. After Many a Summer
Dies the Swan (1939)
C8. Time Must Have a
Stop (1944)
C9. Ape and Essence
(1948)
C10. The Genius and the
Goddess (1955)
C11. Island (1962)
D. Short Stories
D1. Limbo (1920)
D2. Mortal Coils (1922)
D3. Little Mexican
(1924)
D4. Two or Three Graces
(1926)
D5. Brief Candles
(1930)
E. Pamphlets
E1. Vulgarity in
Literature (1930)
E2. Words and Their
Meanings (1940)
E3. Science, Liberty
and Peace (1946)
E4. Literature and
Science (1963)
F. Poems
F1. The Burning Wheel
(1916)
F2. Jonah (1917)
F3. The Defeat of Youth
(1918)
F4. Leda (1920)
F5. The Cicadas (1931)
G. Anthologies
G1. Texts and Pretexts
(1932)
G2. The Perennial
Philosophy (1945)
H. Collected Editions
H1. Essays New and Old
(1926)
H2. Verses and A Comedy
(1946)
H3. Collected Short
Stories (1957)
H4. Collected Essays
(1958)
H5. On Arts and Artists
(1960)
H6. The Gioconda Smile
and Other Stories (1984)
H7. Huxley on Travel
(1984/85)
H8. Complete Essays
(2000–2002)
H9. After the Fireworks
(2018)
A.
Essays
A1.
On the Margin (1923)
a. Chatto and Windus, 1923. Reprinted, 1926, 1948 (CE), 1956 (CE).
b. Other editions: Doran, 1923.
c. 27 essays from periodicals, none previously collected. All reprinted in H8/i. 9 reprinted in H1. 2 reprinted in H4.
d. Contents: Centenaries – On re-reading Candide – Accidie – Subject-matter of Poetry – Water Music –
Pleasures – Modern Folk Poetry – Bibliophily – Democratic Art – Accumulations –
On Deviating into Sense – Polite Conversation – Nationality in Love – How the
Days Draw In! – Tibet – Beauty in 1920 – Great Thoughts – Advertisement –
Euphues Redivivus – The Author of Eminent
Victorians – Edward Thomas – A Wordsworth Anthology – Verhaeren – Edward
Lear – Sir Christopher Wren – Ben Jonson – Chaucer
A2.
Proper Studies (1927)
a. Chatto and Windus, 1927. Reprinted, 1939, 1949 (CE).
b. Other editions: Doubleday Doran, 1928; Shohakusha, 1959.
c. Notes. Introduction and 11 essays.
All essays reprinted in H8/ii.
d. Contents: Introduction – The Idea of Equality – Varieties of
Intelligence – Education – Political Democracy – The Essence of Religion – A Note
on Dogma – The Substitutes for Religion – Personality and the Discontinuity of
the Mind – A Note on Ideals – A Note on Eugenics – Comfort
A3.
Do What You Will (1929)
a. Chatto and Windus, 1929. Reprinted, 1931 (PL), 1949 (CE), 1956.
b. Other editions: Chapman and Hall, 1929; Doubleday Doran, 1930; Watts,
1936 & 1937 (The Thinker’s Library).
c. Notes. 12 essays. All
reprinted in H8/ii. 5 reprinted in H4.
d. Contents: One and Many – Silence is Golden – Spinoza’s Worm – Swift –
Paradise – Wordsworth in the Tropics – Fashions in Love – Francis and Grigory –
Baudelaire – Holy Face – Revolutions – Pascal
A4.
Music at Night (1931)
a. Chatto and Windus, 1931. Reprinted, 1932, 1938 (PL), 1960 (CE) &
1970 (+ E1).
b. Other editions: Doubleday Doran, 1931; Penguin, 1950 & 1955;
Flamingo, 1984; Triad, 1985 (+ E1).
c. Notes. 25 essays, grouped in
four sections. All reprinted in H8/iii.
4 reprinted in H4.
d. Contents:
i. Section I: Tragedy and the Whole Truth – The Rest is Silence – Art and
the Obvious – ‘And wanton optics roll the melting eye’ – Music at Night – Meditation
on El Greco
ii. Section II: Meditation in Arundel Street – Meditation on the Moon – On
Grace – Squeak and Gibber – Beliefs and Actions – Notes on Liberty and the
Boundaries of the Promised Land – On the Charms of History and the Future of
the Past
iii. Section III: Obstacle Race – To the Puritan All Things are Impure – Document
– Points of View – Ethics in Andalusia
iv. Section IV: Foreheads Villainous Low – The New Romanticism – Selected
Snobberies – The Beauty Industry – Those Personal Touches – Wanted, a New
Pleasure – Sermons in Cats
A5.
The Olive Tree (1936)
a. Chatto and Windus, 1936. Reprinted, 1937, 1947 (CE), 1973.
b. Other editions: Harper, 1937; Albatross, 1937.
c. Notes. 16 essays. 2 reprinted
from H1*. All reprinted in H8/iv.
3 reprinted in H4.
d. Contents: Writers and Readers – T. H. Huxley as a Literary Man – Words
and Behaviour – Modern Fetishism – Literature and Examinations – English
Snobbery – Time and the Machine – New-Fashioned Christmas – Historical Generalizations
– Crébillon the Younger* – Justifications – D. H. Lawrence – B. R. Haydon – Waterworks
and Kings – In a Tunisian Oasis* – The Olive Tree
A6.
Themes
and Variations (1950)
a. Chatto and Windus, 1950. Reprinted, 1954 (CE).
b. Other editions: Harper, 1950.
c. Notes. 7 essays. All
reprinted in H8/v. 2 reprinted in H4.
d. Contents: Variations on a Philosopher – Art and Religion – Variations on
a Baroque Tomb – Variations on El Greco – Variations on The Prisons – Variations on Goya – The Double Crisis
A7.
Adonis and the
Alphabet (1956)
a. Chatto and Windus, 1956. Reprinted, 1975.
b. Other editions: Harper, 1956; Signet, 1964; Perennial Library, 1972. All
US editions retitled Tomorrow and Tomorrow
and Tomorrow.
c. Notes. 17 essays. All
reprinted in H8/v. 8 reprinted in H4.
d. Contents: The Education of an Amphibian – Knowledge and Understanding –
The Desert – Ozymandias – Liberty, Quality, Machinery – Censorship and Spoken
Literature – Canned Fish – Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow – Hyperion to a
Satyr – Mother – Adonis and the Alphabet – Miracle in Lebanon – Usually
Destroyed – Famagusta or Paphos – Faith, Taste and History – Doodles in the
Dictionary – Gesualdo: Variations on a Musical Theme – Appendix
A8.
Brave New World
Revisited (1958)
a. Chatto and Windus, 1958. Reprinted, 1959, 1965, 1966, 1970.
b. Other editions: Harper, 1958; Bantam, 1960; Harper & Row, 1965;
Triad, 1983; Flamingo, 1994; Vintage, 2004; Harper Perennial, 2006.
c. Notes. Foreword and 12 chapters
on his most famous novel [C5],
virtually all of them finished essays. Full contents included in H8/vi.
d. Contents: Foreword – Overpopulation – Quantity, Quality, Morality –
Over-Organisation – Propaganda in a Democratic Society – Propaganda Under a
Dictatorship – The Arts of Selling – Brainwashing – Chemical Persuasion –
Subconscious Persuasion – Hypnopaedia – Education for Freedom – What Can Be
Done?
B.
Non-Fiction
B1.
Along the Road (1925)
a. Chatto and Windus, 1925. Reprinted, 1928, 1930 (PL), 1948 (CE), 1974
(CE).
b. Other editions: Doran, 1925; Macmillan, 1925; Triad/Paladin, 1984 [H7]; Flamingo, 1994.
c. Notes. 22 pieces, most of
them finished essays, in four groups. 10 reprinted in H1, 4 in H4, all in H8/i.
d. Contents:
i. Travel in General: Why not Stay at Home? – Wander-Birds – The Traveller’s-Eye View –
Guide-Books – Spectacles – The Country – Books for the Journey
ii. Places: Montesenario – Patinir’s River – Portoferraio – The Palio at Siena –
Views of Holland – Sabbioneta
iii. Works of Art: Breughel – Rimini and Alberti – Conxolus – The Best Picture – The
Pierian Spring
iv. By the Way: A Night at Pietramala – Work and Leisure – Popular Music – The Mystery
of the Theatre
B2.
Jesting Pilate (1926)
a. Chatto and Windus, 1926. Reprinted, 1927, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1948 (CE), 1957
(CE).
b. Other editions: Doran, 1926; Evergreen/Heinemann, 1940; Heron, 1969;
Praeger, 1974; Triad/Paladin, 1984 [H7];
Paragon, 1991; Flamingo, 1994.
c. Notes. AH roaming through India, Burma, Malaya and, to a lesser extent,
China, Japan and the US. Subtitled “Diary of a Journey”. Numerous short
sections with generic titles, grouped in four parts. Included complete in H8/ii. 2 pieces reprinted in H4.
d. Contents:
i. Part I: India &
Burma – Port Said – In the Red Sea – At Sea – Bombay –
Kashmir – Srinagar – Taxila – Between Peshawar and Lahore – Lahore – Amritsar –
Agra – Fatehpur Sikri – Jaipur – Bikaner – Jodhpur – Ajmere – Pushkar Lake –
Chitor – Udaipur – Cawpore – Benares – Lucknow – Delhi – Calcutta – On the
Hoogly – Rangoon – On the Irrawaddy – Bhamo
ii. Part II: Malaya – Penang – Between Penang and Singapore – Singapore – Batavia, Java –
Batavia – Garoet – Buitenzorg – At Sea – Miri, Sarawak – Labuan – Kudat, North Borneo
– Sandakan – The Southern Philippines – Manila
iii. Part III: The Pacific
– Shanghai – Japan – On the Pacific – At Sea
iv. Part IV: America – San Francisco – On the Train – Los Angeles: A Rhapsody – Chicago –
New York – London
B3.
Beyond the Mexique
Bay (1934)
a. Chatto and Windus, 1934. Reprinted, 1936, 1949 (CE), 1950 (CE), 1974
(CE).
b. Other editions: Harper, 1934; Albatross, 1935; Penguin, 1955; Vintage, 1960
& 1962; Triad/Paladin, 1985 [H7].
c. Notes. AH in the Caribbean and Central America, mostly Mexico. Numerous
short sections with generic titles. Included complete in H8/iii. 2 pieces reprinted in H4.
d. Contents: On the Ship – Barbados – Trinidad – Caracas – Colon – Jamaica – British
Honduras – Puerto Barrios – Quirigua – In the Train – Guatemala City – Ciudad
Vieja – Antigua – On the Road – Atitlan – Sololà – Chichicastenango – Zacapulas
– Momostenango – Copan – En Route – Progreso – Miahuatlan – Ejutla – Oaxaca –
Monte Alban – Etla – Mitl – Puebla – Cholula – Mexico City – Taxco
B4.
Ends and Means (1937)
a. Chatto and Windus, 1937.
b. Notes. 15 chapters, some self-sufficient, but not really an essay
collection. Included complete in H8/iv.
2 chapters reprinted in H4.
c.
Contents: Goals,
Roads and Contemporary Starting-point – The Nature of Explanation – Efficacy
and Limitations of Large-scale Social Reform – Social Reform and Violence – The
Planned Society – Nature of the Modern State – Centralization and
Decentralization – Decentralization and Self-government – War – Individual Work
for Reform – Inequality – Education – Religious Practices – Beliefs – Ethics
B5.
Grey Eminence (1941)
a. Chatto and Windus, 1941. Reprinted, 1943 (4th impr.), 1949 (6th
impr.), 1956 (CE).
b. Other editions: Harper, 1941 & 1966; Readers Union, 1944; MacMillan,
1949; Meridian, 1959 & 1962; Triad/Granada, 1982; Vintage, 2005.
c. Notes. Biography François Leclerc du Tremblay. Subtitled “A Study in
Religion and Politics”. The penultimate chapter, “Politics and Religion”, often
reprinted as an essay; see H4 and H8/v.
d. Contents: On the Road to Rome – Childhood and Youth – The Religious
Background – The Evangelist – The Approach to Politics – The Two Collaborators
– La Rochelle – The Diet of Ratsbon – Nothing Fails Like Success – Politics and
Religion – The Final Scene
B6.
The Devils of Loudun (1952)
a. Chatto and Windus, 1952.
b. Other editions: Harper, 1953 & 1971; Readers Union, 1954; Penguin,
1971, 1972, 1973; Folio Society, 1986; Book-of-the-Month Club, 1992; Flamingo,
1994; Vintage, 2005; Harper Perennial, 2009.
c. Notes. In five parts. Entrancing account of witch hunting in 17th-century
France.
d. Contents: An Evening at Mrs Aldwinkle’s – Fragments from the
Autobiography of Francis Chelifer – The Loves of the Parallels – The Journey –
Conclusions
B7.
The Doors of
Perception / Heaven and Hell (1959)
a. Chatto and Windus, 1954 (The Doors of Perception); Chatto and Windus, 1956
(Heaven and Hell); omnibus edition, 1959.
b. Other editions: Penguin, 1959, 1960, 1965 & 1971; Harper & Row,
1963; HarperCollins, 1977; Flamingo, 1994; Vintage, 2004; Harper Perennial,
2004.
c. Notes. The most incredible hallucinogenic and mystical rubbish ever to
have come from the pen of a truly great writer. Both works included complete in
H8/v-vi.
C.
Novels
C1.
Crome Yellow (1921)
a. Chatto and Windus, 1921. Reprinted, 1928 (PL), 1949 (CE), 1952 (CE).
b. Other editions: Garden City, 1922; Penguin, 1936, 1937, 1955, 1960, 1962,
1967, 1969 & 1973; Albatross, 1938; Bantam, 1962, 1965 & 1968; Heron,
1968 (+ C2); Harper & Row, 1974;
Granada, 1982.
c. Notes. Chapter XIII often reprinted as a short story as “Sir Hercules”.
See H3 and H6.
C2.
Antic Hay (1923)
a. Chatto and Windus, 1923. Reprinted, 1927, 1928 (PL), 1929 (PL), 1930
(PL), 1932 (PL), 1936, 1945 (CE), 1949 (CE) & 1971 (CE).
b. Other editions: Doran, 1923; Garden City, 1923; Modern Library, 1923, 1933,
1943, 1946, 1951 & 1962; Albatross, 1932, 1937 & 1955; Bantam, 1953
& 1957; Penguin, 1946, 1948, 1955, 1960, 1962, 1965 & 1969; Perennial
Library, 1965; Triad/Panther, 1977; Granada, 1982; Vintage, 2004.
C3.
Those Barren Leaves (1925)
a. Chatto and Windus, 1925. Reprinted, 1927, 1928 (PL), 1929 (PL), 1931
(PL), 1934, 1940, 1949 (CE), 1950.
b. Other editions: Doran, 1925; Tauchnitz, 1928; Albatross, 1947; Penguin, 1951,
1955, 1961, 1964, 1967 (Modern Classics) & 1973; Avon, 1959 & 1964;
Triad/Granada, 1978.
C4.
Point Counter Point (1928)
a. Chatto and Windus, 1928. Reprinted, 1929 (3rd impr.), 1930 (4th
impr.), 1937, 1941, 1947 (CE), 1963 (CE).
b. Other editions: Doubleday Doran, 1928 & 1929; Grosset & Dunlap,
1928; Literary Guild, 1928; Modern Library, 1928, 1930, 1940, 1951, 1955 &
1960; Harper and Brothers, 1928 & 1947; Tauchnitz, 1929; Albatross, 1937;
Avon, 1955; Penguin, 1955, 1957, 1961, 1963, 1965, 1967, 1969, 1971 & 1975;
Folio Society, 1958; Heron, 1968; Panther, 1978; Triad/Grafton, 1978; Flamingo,
1994; Vintage, 2004.
C5.
Brave New World (1932)
a. Chatto and Windus, 1932. Reprinted, 1934, 1936, 1938, 1941 (PL) 1942, 1950
(CE), 1952, 1958 (CE), 1964 (CE), 1970 (CE).
b. Other editions: Doubleday Doran, 1932; Musson Book Company, 1932; Albatross,
1933 & 1947; Harper & Brothers, 1942, 1945, 1946, 1947 & 1950; Harper
& Row, 1946, 1965 & 1969; Modern Library, 1946, 1956 & 1958; Zodiac
Press, 1948; Bantam, 1952, 1955, 1960, 1966 & 1968; Vanguard, 1952 & 1956;
Penguin, 1956, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1971, 1972 & 1974; Time
Inc, 1963; Folio Society, 1971, 1980, 1997 & 2013; Heritage Press, 1974; Easton
Press, 1978; Amereon House, 1979; Guild, 1979; Longman, 1981, 1986 & 1991; Reclam,
1992; Flamingo, 1994; Harper Perennial, 1998; Vintage, 2004; Arcturus, 2014;
Indigo, 2015.
c. Notes. Much the most famous work ever published by AH. Subject to his
own commentary in book form 26 years later. See A8.
C6.
Eyeless in Gaza (1936)
a. Chatto and Windus, 1936. Reprinted, 1938, 1942, 1949, 1950 & 1955
(CE).
b. Other editions: Harper, 1936; Bantam, 1954 & 1968; Penguin, 1955,
1959, 1962, 1965, 1968, 1971 & 1975; Harper Perennial, 1976 & 2009; Grafton,
1977; Flamingo, 1994; Carroll & Graf, 1995; Vintage, 2004 & 2014.
C7.
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan (1939)
a. Harper, 1939.
b. Other editions: Avon, 1952, 1954 & 1964; Ivan R. Dee, 1993.
C8.
Time Must Have a Stop (1944)
a. Chatto and Windus, 1944. Reprinted, 1945, 1946, 1948, 1966 (CE).
b. Other editions: Harper and Brothers, 1944; Sun Dial Press, 1947; Berkley,
1953; Harper Perennial, 1965; Dalkey Archive Press, 1998; Vintage, 2015.
C9.
Ape and Essence (1948)
a. Harper and Brothers, 1948.
b. Other editions: Bantam, 1948, 1958, 1962, 1964 & 1968; Chatto and
Windus, 1949, 1951 (CE) & 1960 (CE); Harper, 1948; Heron, 1970; Harper
Colophon, 1983; Panther, 1990; Ivan R. Dee, 1992; Flamingo, 1994; Vintage,
2005.
C10.
The Genius and the
Goddess (1955)
a. Chatto and Windus, 1955.
b. Other editions: Harper, 1955; Bantam, 1956 & 1969; Triad/Granada,
1982; Flamingo, 1994; Harper Perennial, 2009; Vintage, 2015.
C11.
Island (1962)
a. Chatto and Windus, 1962.
b. Other editions: Harper, 1962; Bantam, 1963; Penguin, 1964; Triad/Grafton,
1976; Flamingo, 1994; Vintage, 2005; Harper Perennial, 2009.
D.
Short Stories
D1.
Limbo (1920)
a.
Chatto and Windus, 1920.
Reprinted, 1923, 1924, 1928 (PL), 1946 (CE), 1950 (CE).
b.
Other editions: Doran, 1920; Heron, 1968.
c.
Notes. 6 stories + 1 play. All stories except
the first included in H3.
d.
Contents: Farcical
History of Richard Greenow – Happily Ever After – Eupompus Gave Splendour
to Art by Numbers – Cynthia – The Bookshop – The Death of Lully – Happy
Families (play)
D2.
Mortal Coils (1922)
a. Chatto and Windus, 1922. Reprinted, 1932, 1949 (CE), 1971 (CE).
b. Other editions: Doran, 1922; Harper and Brothers, 1948; Albatross, 1955;
Penguin, 1955, 1956, 1962.
c. Notes. 4 stories + 1 play.
All stories included in H3.
d.
Contents: The
Gioconda Smile – The Tillotson Banquet – Green
Tunnels – Nuns at Luncheon – Permutations Among the
Nightingales (play)
D3.
Little Mexican (1924)
a. Chatto and Windus, 1924. Reprinted, 1927, 1929 (PL), 1948 (CE), 1973
(CE).
b. Other editions: apparently none?!
c. Notes: 6 stories. All except
the first included in H3.
d. Contents: Uncle Spencer – Little Mexican – Hubert and Minnie – Fard –
The Portrait – Young Archimedes
D4.
Two or Three Graces (1926)
a. Chatto and Windus, 1926. Reprinted, 1929 (CE), 1949 (CE), 1963 (CE)
& 1975.
b. Other editions: Doran, 1926; Macmillan, 1926; Heron, 1969.
c. Notes. 4 stories. All stories
except the last included in H3. See
also H9.
d. Contents: Half-holiday – The Monocle – Fairy Godmother – Two or Three
Graces
D5.
Brief Candles (1930)
a. Chatto and Windus, 1930. Reprinted, 1931 (PL), 1934 (PL), 1948 (CE).
b. Other editions: Doubleday Doran, 1930; Tauchnitz, 1930 & 1947; Albatross,
1935; Penguin, 1965, 1969, 1971 & 1973; Panther, 1977; Granada, 1984;
Flamingo, 1994.
c. Notes. 4 stories. All except
the last included in H3. See also H9.
d. Contents: Chawdron – The Rest Cure – The Claxtons – After the Fireworks
E.
Pamphlets
E1.Vulgarity in Literature (1930)
a. Chatto and Windus, 1930. Reprinted, 1940.
b. Other editions: Haskell House, 1956.
c. Notes. Also appeared in Saturday
Review of Literature, September 27, 1930. Reprinted complete in H8/iii and abridged in H4. Included in some editions of A4.
E2.Words and Their
Meanings (1940)
a. Ward Ritchei Press, 1940.
b. Other editions: RIT Press, 2018; Foreword by Jon Budington; Afterword by
Bruce A. Austin.
c. Notes. Something of a rarity in AH’s bibliography, apparently never
collected and never reprinted until 2018.
E3.Science, Liberty and
Peace (1946)
a. Fellowship Publ., 1946.
b. Other editions: Chatto and Windus, 1947.
c. Notes. Reprinted in H8/v.
Parts included in H4.
E4.Literature and
Science (1963)
a. Harper & Row, 1963.
b. Other editions: Chatto and Windus, 1963; Leete’s Island Books, 1982; Ox
Bow Press, 1991.
c. Notes. Reprinted in H8/vi.
F.
Poems
F1.
The Burning Wheel (1916)
a. B. H. Blackwell, 1916.
b. Notes. 51 pp. 250 copies printed.
F2.
Jonah (1917)
a. Publisher unknown, 1917.
b. Other editions: Gotham Book Mart, 1979, facsimile edition of the
author’s autograph limited to 150 copies, apparently first reprint 62 years
after first publication.
c. Notes. A single poem (14 pp) published anonymously at Christmas 1917 in
a very limited number of copies.
F3.
The Defeat of Youth (1918)
a. B. H. Blackwell / Longmans, Green, 1918.
b. Notes. 250 copies. 48 pp. 36 poems.
F4.
Leda (1920)
a. Chatto and Windus, April 1920. Reprinted, 1926.
b. Other editions: Doran, 1920.
c. Notes. 80 pp. 26 poems.
F5.
The Cicadas (1931)
a. Chatto and Windus, 1931.
b. Other editions: Doubleday Doran, 1931.
c. Notes. 30 poems. All reprinted in H2.
d. Contents: Theatre of varieties – Picture by Goya – Caligula – Nero and
Sporus, I – Nero and Sporus, II – Mythological incident – Femmes Damnées – Arabia
Felix – The Moor –Noblest Romans – Orion – Meditation – September – Seasons – Storm
at night – Mediterranean – Tide – Fête Nationale – Midsummer day – Autumn
stillness – Apennine –Almeria – Pagan year – Armour – Sheep – Black country – Carpe
Noctem – The pergola –Lines – The cicadas.
G.
Anthologies
G1.
Texts and Pretexts (1932)
a. Chatto and Windus, 1932. Reprinted, 1933 (2nd impr.), 1935,
1939.
b. Other editions: Harper and Brothers, 1933 & 1935; Norton, 1960; Grafton,
1977; Flamingo, 1994.
c. Notes. A poetry anthology with extensive commentary by AH.
d. Contents: Introduction – Visitations – Country Ecstasies – The
Individual – Man and Nature – Man and Behemoth – Earthly Paradise – Self
Torture – The Nature of Love – Loneliness – Desire – Physical Passion – Love
and Oblivion – Vamp – Right True End – Polygamy – Marriage – Love and
Literature – Old Age – Memory – England – Progress – Abstraction – Hocus-pocus
– Anti-clericalism – Money – Hypocrisy – The Worst Side – Comic Poetry –
Conceits – Colloquialism and the Poetry of Common Life – Descriptions –
Nonsense – Obscurity in Poetry – Magic – Music and Poetry – The Rest is Silence
– God – Distractions – Amor Fati – Strenuous Life – Misery – Escape – Serenity
– Death – Conclusions
G2.
The Perennial Philosophy (1945)
a. Harper and Row, 1945.
b. Other editions: Chatto and Windus, 1946, 1957 (6th impr.)
& 1969 (CE).
c. Fontana, 1958 & 1959; Harper Perennial, 2004 & 2009.
d. Notes. The sages through the centuries according to AH.
e. Contents: That Art Thou – The Nature of the Ground – Personality,
Sanctity, Divine Incarnation – God in the World – Charity – Mortification,
Non-Attachment, Right Livelihood – Truth – Religion and Temperament –
Self-Knowledge – Grace and Free Will – Good and Evil – Time and Eternity –
Salvation, Deliverance, Enlightenment – Immortality and Survival – Silence –
Prayer – Suffering – Faith – God is not mocked – Tantum religio potuit suadere
malorum – Idolatry – Emotionalism – The Miraculous – Ritual, Symbol, Sacrament –
Spiritual Exercises – Perseverance and Regularity – Contemplation, Action, and
Social Utility
H.
Collected Editions
H1.
Essays New and Old (1926)
a. Chatto and Windus, 1926. Limited to 650 copies signed by AH.
b. Other editions: Doran, 1927.
c. Notes. 28 essays. 20 of them previously collected in A1* and B1**.
d.
Contents: In a
Tunisian Oasis – The Traveller’s-Eye View** – Accidie* – Breughel** – Tibet** – Ballet
in Criticism: Callot – Modern Folk Poetry* – Rimini
and Alberti** – Crébillon the Younger – Advertisement* – Montesenario** – Euphues
Redivivus* – Bello Bello – Views
of Holland** – Edward Lear* – Ballet
in Criticism: Scriabine, or The Voluptuous Dentist – Sir
Christopher Wren* – The Country** – On
Deviating into Sense* – Sabbioneta** – Where
Are the Movies Moving? – Conxolus** – The
Importance of Being Nordic – Chaucer* – Popular
Music** – The Best Picture** – Beauty
in 1920* – Sincerity in Art
H2.
Verses and A Comedy (1946)
a. Chatto and Windus, 1946 (CE).
b. Notes. 76 poems = 22 early (1916–18) + 26 from F4 + 30 from F5. 1 play
(1931).
c. Contents:
i. Early Poems: Song of poplars – The reef – The elms – Out of the window –
Anniversaries – Italy – By the fire – Valedictory – Minoan porcelain –
Crapulous impression – Complaint of a poet manqué – Social amenities – Topiary
– On the ‘bus – Points and lines – Stanzas – Poem – Scenes of the mind – L’après-midi
d’un faune – Mole – Two realities – Philosophy
ii. Leda: Leda – The birth of god – On Hampstead heath – Sympathy – Male and
female created he them – From the pillar – Jonah – Variations on a theme – A
meldy by Scarlatti – A sunset – Life and art – First philosopher’s song –
Second philosopher’s song – Fifth philosopher’s song – Ninth philosopher’s song
– Morning – Verrey’s – Frascati’s – Fatigue – The merry-go-round – Black
streets – Last things – Gothic – Evening party – Beauty – Soles occidere et
redire possunt
iii. The Cicadas: Theatre of varieties – Picture of Goya – Caligula – Nero and Sporus, I
– Nero and Sporus, II – Mythological incident – Femmes damnées – Arabia Infelix
– The moor – Noblest Romans – Orion – Meditation – September – Seasons – Storm
at Night – Mediterranean – Tide – Fête nationale – Midsummer day – Autumn
stillness – Apennine – Almeria – Pagan year – Armour – Sheep – Black country –
Carpe noctem – The pergola – Lines – The Cicadas
iv. The World of Light [a play in three acts]
H3.
Collected Short
Stories (1957)
a. Chatto and Windus, 1957. Reprinted, 1958 (2nd impr.).
b. Other editions: Harper & Brothers, 1957; Bantam, 1964, 1966 &
1973; Vintage, 1969; Franklin Library, 1981; Ivan R. Dee, 1992.
c. Notes. 21 stories from the five collections and the first novel [D1–D5, C1]. 4 stories omitted: “Farcical History of Richard Greenow”,
“Uncle Spencer”, “Two or Three Graces”, “After the Fireworks”; the last three
reprinted in H9. First 18 stories
reprinted in H6.
d. Contents: Happily Ever After – Eupompus Gave Splendour to Art by
Numbers – Cynthia – The Bookshop – The Death of Lully – Sir Hercules – The
Gioconda Smile – The Tillotson Banquet – Green Tunnels – Nuns at Luncheon –
Little Mexican – Hubert and Minnie – Fard – The Portrait – Young Archimedes –
Half-holiday – The Monocle – Fairy Godmother – Chawdron – The Rest Cure – The
Claxtons
H4.
Collected Essays (1958)
a. Harper & Brothers, 1958. Reprinted, 1959.
b. Other editions: Chatto and Windus, 1959 & 1960; Bantam, 1960;
Colophon, 1971.
c. Notes. Arranged and with a new Preface by AH. 47 pieces, some abridged, all
but four previously collected in no fewer than 14 works, 1923–56 [A1, A3–A7, B1–B5, B7,
E1, E3], grouped in 4 sections
and 12 subsections. The four uncollected pieces are included in H8/vi.
d. Contents: Preface
i. Section I:
1.
Nature: Wordsworth in the Tropics [A3] – The Olive Tree [A5] – The Desert [A7]
2.
Travel: The Palio at Siena [B1] – Sabbioneta [B1] – Between Peshawar and Lahore [B2] – Jaipur [B2] – Atitlan
[B3] – Sololà [B3] – In a Tunisian Oasis [A5]
– Miracle in Lebanon [A7, abridged]
3.
Love, Sex, and Physical Beauty: Beauty in 1920 [A1] – Fashions
in Love [A3] – Sermons in Cats [A4] – Appendix [A7]
ii. Section II
1. Literature: Subject-Matter of Poetry [A1]
– Tragedy and the Whole Truth [A4] –
Vulgarity in Literature [E1,
abridged] – D. H. Lawrence [A5] – Famagusta
or Paphos [A7]
2. Painting: Breughel [B1] – Meditation
on El Greco [A4] – Form and Spirit
in Art [A6, “Variations on El
Greco”, abridged] – Variations on Goya [A6]
– Landscape Painting as a Vision-Inducing Art [B7]
3. Music: Popular Music [B1] – Music
at Night [A4] – Gesualdo: Variations
on a Musical Theme [A7]
4. Matters of Taste and
Style: Variations on a Baroque Tomb [A6] – Faith, Taste, and History [A7]
iii. Section III
1. History: Maine de Biran: The Philosopher in History [A6, “Variations on a Philosopher”, abridged] – Usually Destroyed [A7]
2.
Politics: Words and Behaviour [A5] – Decentralization and
Self-Government [B4] – Politics and
Religion [B5] – The Scientist’s Role
[E3] – Tomorrow and Tomorrow and
Tomorrow [A7]
iv. Section IV
1. Psychology: Madness, Badness, Sadness [Esquire, Jun 1956, previously uncollected] – A Case of Voluntary Ignorance [Esquire, Oct 1956, previously uncollected] – The Oddest Science [Esquire, Mar 1957, previously uncollected]
2. Rx for Sense and
Psyche: The Doors of Perception [B7, abridged] – Drugs That Shape Men’s Minds [Saturday Evening Post, Oct 1958, previously uncollected]
3. Way of Life: Holy Face [A3] – Pascal [A3, abridged] – Beliefs [B4, abridged] – Knowledge and
Understanding [A7]
H5.
On Arts and Artists (1960)
a. Harper, 1960.
b. Other editions: Meridian, 1960; Chatto and Windus, 1960.
c. Notes. Essays and parts of essays, all previously collected. Edited and
introduced by Morris Philipson. Except for H5, apparently the only (?!) fairly
comprehensive selection of AH’s essays published during his life – or for a
long time after that, for that matter.
d. Contents:
i. Aesthetics: On tradition and individual style – Art and religion – Art and religion:
the view from India – Faith, taste, and history – Sincerity in art – On the
experience of nature and literary expression – Tragedy and the whole truth – To
the Puritan all things are impure – Art and the obvious – “And wanton optics
roll the melting eye” – On handicraft – On art, sanity, and mysticism – Adonis
and the alphabet
ii. Criticism: Chaucer – Ben Johnson – Crébillon the Younger – Swift – Baudelaire –
The best picture – Breughel – Variations on Goya – Variations on El Greco – Variations
on “The prisons” – Doodles in a dictionary – On the absence of painters in the
Tropics – Indian water colors – Rimini and Alberti – Sir Christopher Wren – The
Taj Mahal – A note on architecture in India – Gesualdo: variations on a musical
theme – Music in India and Japan – Music at night – The rest is silence.
H6.
The Gioconda Smile
and Other Stories (1984)
a. Triad/Granada, 1984.
b. Notes. The first 18 stories from H3.
c.
Contents: Happily
Ever After – Eupompus Gave Splendour to Art by Numbers – Cynthia – The Bookshop
– The Death of Lully – Sir Hercules – The Gioconda Smile – The Tillotson
Banquet – Green Tunnels – Nuns at Luncheon – Little Mexican – Hubert and Minnie
– Fard – The Portrait – Young Archimedes – Half-holiday – The Monocle – Fairy
Godmother
H7.
Huxley on Travel (1984–85)
a. Triad/Paladin, 1984–85. 3 vols.
b. Notes. Handsome set of cheap paperbacks in a slipcase.
c. Contents: B1, B2, B3.
H8.
Complete Essays (2000–2002)
a. Ivan R. Dee, 2000–2002. 6 vols.
b. Notes. The only relatively complete edition of AH’s essays. Indifferent
editorial work by Robert S. Baker and James Sexton: somewhat helpful
introductions, but very few notes, sloppy publication histories and
questionable thematic organisation. Nevertheless, an indispensable set for
anybody seriously interested in AH.
c. Contents: A1–A8; B1–B4; B7; 285 uncollected essays;
1 unpublished piece.
i. Vol. 1, 1920–1925: A1; B1; 97 uncollected essays.
1. Architecture,
Painting, Literature: Proust: The
Eighteenth-Century Method [8 Aug 1919, Athenaeum]
– A Ghost of the Nineties [10 Oct 1919, Athenaeum]
– (On Essays) [20 Feb 1920, Athenaeum]
– (Proust and Best-Sellers) [12 Mar 1920, Athenaeum]
– (Godwin and Bailey) [16 Apr 1920, Athenaeum]
– (Balzac and Social History) [23 Jul 1920, Athenaeum]
– (Aristocracy and Literature) [27 Aug 1920, Athenaeum] – (Alfieri) [8 Oct 1920, Athenaeum] – (Bacon’s Symbolism) [19 Nov 1920, Athenaeum] – The Cry for a Messiah in the Arts [Jan 1922, Vanity Fair] – The Modern Spirit and a
Family Party [Aug 1922, Vanity Fair]
– Marie Laurencin: A Woman of Genius [Sep 1922, Vanity Fair] – A Film with a Warning [Oct 1922, Vanity Fair] – The Salzburg Festival
[Dec 1922, Vanity Fair] – The
Portraits of Augustus John [Jul 1923, Vanity
Fair] – Royalty and a Caricature [Dec 1923, Athenaeum] – Centenaries [A1]
– On Re-reading Candide [A1] – Subject-Matter of Poetry [A1] – Water Music [A1] – Bibliophily [A1] –
Accumulations [A1] – On Deviating
into Sense [A1] – Polite Conversation
[A1] – Nationality in Love [A1] – How the Days Draw In [A1] – Beauty in 1920 [A1] – Great Thoughts [A1] – Advertisements [A1] – Euphues Redivivus [A1] – The Author of Eminent Victorians
[A1] – Edward Thomas [A1] – A Wordsworth Anthology [A1] – Verhaeren [A1] – Edward Lear [A1] –
Sir Christopher Wren [A1] – Ben
Jonson [A1] – Chaucer [A1] – How to Write a Tragedy [May 1924,
Vanity Fair] – The Importance of the
Comic Genius [Jul 1924, Vanity Fair]
– A Ballet in the Modernist Manner [Apr 1924, Vanity Fair] – Fashions in Visual Imagery [Oct 1924, Vanity Fair] – Popular Literature [Nov
1924, Vanity Fair] – Art and Life
[Feb 1925, Vanity Fair] – The Spread
of Bad Art [Mar 1925, Vanity Fair] – What,
Exactly, Is Modern? [May 1925, Vanity
Fair] – Where Are the Movies Moving? [July 1925, Vanity Fair] – The Pleasant and the Unpleasant [Sep 1925, Vanity Fair] – Books for the Journey [B1] – Sabbioneta [B1] – Breughel [B1] –
Rimini and Alberti [B1] – Conxolus [B1] – The Best Picture [B1] – The Pierian Spring [B1] – The Mystery of the Theatre [B1]
2. Music [all pieces from The Weekly
Westminster Gazette]: Brahms [18 Feb 1922] – Busoni, Dr. Burney, and Others
[25 Feb 1922] – The Interpreter and the Creator [4 Mar 1922] – Good-Popular
Music [11 Mar 1922] – Instruction with Pleasure [18 Mar 1922] – Emotional
Contributions [25 Mar 1922] – Light Opera and the New Stravinsky [8 Apr 1922] –
The Mysteries of Music [15 Arp 1922] – Some Easter Music [22 Apr 1922] – Music
and Machinery [29 Apr 1922] – Beethoven’s Quartets [6 May 1922] – Singing and
Things Sung [13 May 1922] – Patriotism and Criticism [20 May 1922] – The
Criticism of Music [27 May 1922] – A Problem of Musical History [17 Jun 1922] –
The Question of Form [3 Jun 1922] – Literary Music [10 June 1922] – A Few
Complaints [24 Jun 1922] – Mr. Lawrence’s Marchioness [1 Jul 1922] –
Supplementing the Concerts [8 Jul 1922] – Orientalism in Music [15 Jul 1922] –
Music in a Museum [22 Jul 1922] – Popular Tunes – Past and Present [29 Jul
1922] – Let Us Now Praise Famous Men [5 Aug 1922] – Thayer’s Beethoven [12 Aug
1922] – The Salzburg Festival – I [19 Aug 1922] – The Salzburg Festival – II
[26 Aug 1922] – The Salzburg Festival – III [2 Sep 1922] – Mozart at Salzburg
[9 Sep 1922] – Popular Music in Italy [16 Sep 1922] – Some Very Young Music [23
Sep 1922] – Reflections in the Promenade [30 Sep 1922] – Busoni Again [7 Oct
1922] – Reflections in the Concert Room [14 Oct 1922] – New Friends and Old [21
Oct 1922] – Variations [28 Oct 1922] – Music and Politics [4 Nov 1922] – An
Orlando Gibbons Concert [11 Nov 1922] – The Arnold Bax Concert [18 Nov 1922] –
Temporaries and Eternals [25 Nov 1922] – Verdi and Palestrina [2 Dec 1922] –
Round About Don Juan [9 Dec 1922] – Delius and the Nature-Emotion [16 Dec 1922]
– Bad Music [23 Dec 1922] – Music in the Encyclopaedia [30 Dec 1922] – Going to
the Opera [6 Jan 1923] – Handel, Polly, and Ourselves [13 Jan 1923] – Music
Clubs [20 Jan 1923] – Cherubini – Emotion and Form [27 Jan 1923] – Madrigals
and Program Music [3 Feb 1923] – The Hymn and the Dream [10 Feb 1923] –
Barbarism in Music [17 Feb 1923] – Notes on a Pianist and on Pianos [24 Feb
1923] – A Mozart Program [3 Mar 1923] – Contemporaneousness [10 Mar 1923] –
Bach and Handel [17 Mar 1923] – Books About Music [31 Mar 1923] – What Are the Wild
Waves Saying? [7 Apr 1923] – Brahms’s Birthday [12 May 1923] – Opera,
Marionettes, and Battistini [19 May 1923] – Eclecticism [26 May 1923] – Music
and the Interpretative Medium [2 Jun 1923] – Popular Music [B1]
3. History, Politics,
Social Criticism: Accidie [A1] – Pleasures [A1] –
Modern Folk Poetry [A1] – Democratic
Art [A1] – Follow My Leader [Jan
1924, Vanity Fair] – The Dangers of
Work [Mar 1924, Vanity Fair] – On Not
Being Up-to-Date [Apr 1924, Vanity Fair]
– Fashions in Love [Sep 1924, Vanity Fair]
– By Their Speech Ye Shall Know Them [Dec 1924, Vanity Fair] – The Importance of Being Nordic [Mar 1925, Vanity Fair] – The Horrors of Society
[Jun 1925, Vanity Fair] – The Psychology of Suggestion [Aug 1925, Vanity Fair] – Talking of Monkeys [Nov
1925, Vanity Fair] – A Night at
Pietramala [B1] – Work and Leisure [B1]
4. Travel: Tibet [A1] – Why Not Stay
at Home? [B1] – Wander-Birds [B1] – The Traveler’s-Eye View [B1] – Guide-Books [B1] – Spectacles [B1] –
The Country [B1] – Montesenario [B1] – Patinir’s River [B1] – Portoferraio [B1] – The Palio at Siena [B1] – Views of Holland [B1]
ii. Vol. 2, 1926–1929: A2; A3; B2; 24 uncollected essays.
1. Architecture,
Painting, Music, Literature: Sincerity in Art
[Jun 1926, Vanity Fair] – Dorian Gray
[30 Sep 1926, Daily Express] – Why I
Do Not Go to the Theater [Jun 1927, Vanity
Fair] – Vulgarity [Aug 1927, Vanity
Fair] – Silence Is Golden [A3] –
Swift [A3] – Baudelaire [A3] – Petrolini: An Acting Genius [Jan
1930, Vanity Fair]
2. History, Politics,
Social Criticism: On Making Things Too Easy [Jan
1926, Vanity Fair] – A Few
Well-Chosen Words [Feb 1926, Vanity Fair]
– The Vanishing of Power [Mar 1926, Vanity
Fair] – The Present Fad of Self-Confession [May 1926, Vanity Fair] – Other People’s Prejudices [Jun 1926, Vanity Fair] – How Should Men Be
Educated? [Dec 1926, Vanity Fair] –
Moral and Immoral [Mar 1927, Vanity Fair]
– Recreations [Jul 1927, Vanity Fair]
– Archaeology in A.D. 5000 [Sep 1927, Vanity
Fair] – The Fallacy of World Brotherhood [Feb 1928, Vanity Fair] – Whither Are We Civilizing? [Apr 1928, Vanity Fair] – Bad Men [19 May 1928, Nation and Athenaeum] – The Battle of
the Sexes [May 1928, Vanity Fair] – The
Decline of the Family [Jun 1928, Vanity
Fair] – Print and the Man [Aug 1928, Vanity
Fair] – The Importance of Being Foreign [Nov 1928, Vanity Fair] – Paradise [A3]
– Revolutions [A3]
3. Science, Philosophy,
Religion: No Disputing About Reasons [May 1927, Vanity Fair] – Measurable and
Unmeasurable [A2] – The Idea of
Equality [A2] – Varieties of
Intelligence [A2] – Education [A2] – Political Democracy [A2] – The Essence of Religion [A2] – A Note on Dogma [A2] – The Substitutes for Religion [A2] – Personality and the Discontinuity
of the Mind [A2] – A Note on Ideals
[A2] – A Note on Eugenics [A2] – Comfort [A2] – Progress [Jan 1928, Vanity
Fair] – Ravens and Writing Desks [Sep 1928, Vanity Fair] – One and Many [A3]
– Spinoza’s Worm [A3] – Wordsworth
in the Tropics [A3] – Fashions in
Love [A3] – Francis and Grigory, or
the Two Humilities [A3] – Holy Face
[A3] – Pascal [A3]
4. Travel: Jesting Pilate [B2].
iii. Vol. 3, 1930–1935: A4; B3; E1; 119 uncollected essays.
1. Art, Literature,
Music: Aesop Revised [Jan 1929, Vanity Fair] – The Critic in the Crib [Mar 1929, Vanity Fair] – Art and the Critic [Aug
1929, Vanity Fair] – Vulgarity in
Literature [27 Sep 1930, Saturday Review
of Literature] – Reading, the New Vice [Aug 1930, Vanity Fair] – Tragedy
and the Whole Truth [A4] – The Rest
Is Silence [A4] – Art and the
Obvious [A4] – “And Wanton Optics
Roll the Melting Eye” [A4] – Music
at Night [A4] – Meditation on El
Greco [A4] – Those Personal Touches
[A4] – Sermons in Cats [A4] – An Exhibition [17 Mar 1932, Hearst] – Too Many Books [22 Apr 1932, Hearst] – Art and Propaganda [20 May
1932, Hearst] – Letter Writing [17
Sep 1932, Hearst] – Words, Words,
Words [8 Oct 1932, Hearst] – Best of
Both Worlds [12 Nov 1932, Hearst] –
The Export of Words [10 Dec 1932, Hearst]
– Names and Things [7 Jan 1933, Hearst]
– Fiction and Fact [29 Jul 1933, Hearst]
– The Music Industry [20 Oct 1933, Hearst]
– The Hundred Best Books [1 Mar 1934, Hearst]
– Best-sellers [8 Jun 1934, Hearst] –
Artists Against Fascism and War [Foreword to the eponymous exhibition
catalogue, Nov 1935]
2. Science, Philosophy,
Religion: Meditation in Arundel Street [A4] – Meditation on the Moon [A4]
– Beliefs and Actions [A4] – On Grace
[Jan 1931, The Hibbert Journal] – Boundaries
of Utopia [A4] – On the Charms of
History and the Future of the Past [A4]
– Obstacle Race [A4] – Squeak and
Gibber [A4] – Science and
Civilization [13 Jan 1932, BBC broadcast; 20 Jan 1932, Listener, as “Science – the Double-Edged Tool!”] – Atoms Versus Men
[18 Jun 1934, Hearst] – Monks Among
Test Tubes [25 Jun 1932, Hearst] – Faith
[3 Sep 1932, Hearst] – Science of
Politics? [4 Mar 1933, Hearst] – Religion,
Science, and Man [31 Jan 1934, Hearst]
– Science’s Growth [12 Sep 1934, Hearst]
– Mind Reading [3 Oct 1934, Hearst] –
Science Turns to the Supernatural [Dec 1934, Nash’s Pall Mall Magazine] – The Truth About Thinking [9 Mar 1935, Hearst]
3. History, Politics,
Social Criticism: The Outlook for American
Culture [Aug 1927, Harper’s Magazine]
– In Praise of Intolerance [Feb 1929, Vanity
Fair] – The Best Authorities [Apr 1929, Vanity
Fair] – America and Europe: Yesterday’s Influence on Today [Jul 1929,
Century] – The New Salvation [Sep 1929, Vanity
Fair] – Some American Contradictions [Oct 1929, Vanity Fair] – Machinery, Psychology, and Politics [23 Nov 1929, The Spectator] – The Community Business
[Dec 1929, Vanity Fair] – Fatal Ladies [Feb 1930, Vanity Fair] – Babies - State Property [21 May 1930, Evening Standard] – What Gandhi Fails to See [Jul 1930, Vanity Fair] – To the Puritan All Things
Are Impure [A4] – Document [A4] – Points of View [A4] – Ethics in Andalusia [A4] – Foreheads Villainous Low [A4] – The New Romanticism [A4] – Selected Snobberies [A4] – The Beauty Industry [A4] – Wanted, a New Pleasure [A4] – Abroad in England [May 1931, Nash’s Pall Mall Magazine] – Sight-seeing
in Alien Englands [Jun 1931, Nash’s Pall
Mall Magazine] – The Victory of Art over Humanity [Jul 1931, Nash’s Pall Mall Magazine] – Revolution
[24 Sep 1931, Hearst] – On Going Over
a Battleship [25 Sep 1931, Hearst] – Imitations
[26 Sep 1931, Hearst] – Ideals and
the Machine Tool [28 Sep 1931, Hearst]
– Greater and Lesser London [Oct 1931, Nash’s
Pall Mall Magazine] – Love Interest Forecast [3 Oct 1931, Hearst] – A Treatise on Drugs [10 Oct
1931, Hearst] – A Letter from India
[22 Oct 1931, Hearst] – Pygmalion [28
Oct 1931, Hearst] – A Soviet
Schoolbook [29 Oct 1931, Hearst] – Forewarned
Is Not Forearmed [18 Nov 1931, Hearst]
– Hyde Park on Sunday [2 Dec 1931, Hearst]
– In Whose Name? [19 Dec 1931, Hearst]
– A Generation War? [29 Dec 1931, Hearst]
– Poppy Juice [7 Jan 1932, Hearst] –
Paper [5 Feb 1932, Hearst] – The Use
of Uselessness [20 Feb 1932, Hearst]
– Flight from Force [29 Feb 1932, Hearst]
– Are We Growing Stupider? [30 Mar 1932, Hearst]
– Peace in Our Time [5 Apr 1932, Hearst]
– Japanese Advertisement [2 May 1932, Hearst]
– Industrial Progress and Social Stability [14 May 1932, Time and Tide] – Sex, the Slump, and Salvation [21 May 1932, Time and Tide] – False Prophets [7 Jun 1932, Hearst] – New World Drama [23 Jul 1932, Hearst] – The Problem of Leisure [6 Aug 1932, Hearst] – The Reality of Progress [13 Aug 1932, Hearst] – Compulsory Suicide [27 Aug
1932, Hearst] – Swastika and Arrows
[10 Sep 1932, Hearst] – Man Proposes
[24 Sep 1932, Hearst] – Dangers of
Diversity [29 Oct 1932, Hearst] – The
Problems of Property [3 Dec 1932, Hearst]
– What Is the State? [17 Dec 1932, Hearst]
– Education [21 Dec 1932, Listener] –
Aristocratic Tradition [31 Dec 1932, Hearst]
– Collection [24 Jan 1933, Hearst] – Hamlet
in Russia [28 Jan 1933, Hearst] – Psychological
Dividends [4 Feb 1933, Hearst] – Living
Through History [18 Feb 1933, Hearst]
– Political Plans [29 Apr 1933, Hearst]
– Primitive Minds [13 May 1933, Hearst]
– Primitive and Civilized [20 May 1933, Hearst]
– Bovarism [27 May 1933, Hearst] – Functional
or Ornamental [3 Jun 1933, Hearst] – Force
and Persuasion [17 Jun 1933, Hearst]
– Scapegoats [1 Jul 1933, Hearst] – Anthropology
at Home [15 Jul 1933, Hearst] –
Discipline [8 Aug 1933, Hearst] – The
Reality of Progress [16 Sep 1933, Hearst]
– German Bonfires [29 Sep 1933, Hearst]
– The Race Racket [3 Nov 1933, Hearst]
– Population and Politics [13 Dec 1933, Hearst]
– Racial History [7 Feb 1934, Hearst]
– Swindlers and Swindlees [1 Mar 1934, Hearst]
– The Prospects of Fascism in England [3 Mar 1934, Time and Tide] – The Strain of Modern Life [5 Mar 1934, Hearst] – Pareto and Society [10 Mar
1934, Time and Tide] – Nights Out [14 Mar 1934, Hearst] – Catastrophes [22 Mar 1934, Hearst] – Dispatches from the Riviera [7 May & 4 Jun 1932 and
24 Mar 1934, Time and Tide] – Reason
Eclipsed [12 Apr 1934, Hearst] – What
Is Happening to Our Population? [Apr 1934, Nash’s
Pall Mall Magazine] – 100 Years Hence [25 Jun 1934, Hearst] – Idolatry [16 Jul 1934, Hearst] – 500 Prophets [16 Aug 1934, Hearst] – Pistol Fiends [21 Nov 1934, Hearst] – The Worth of a Gift [16 Nov 1934, Speech in support of
Cecil Houses Women’s Public Lodging House Fund at Daly’s Theatre, London] – Casino
and Bourse [8 Mar 1935, Everyman, NS]
– Angry Ape [13 Apr 1935, Hearst] – The
Next 25 Years [8 May 1935, Daily Express]
– Ballyhoo for Nations [Jul 1935, Nash’s
Pall Mall Magazine] – Emperor-Worship Up to Date [11 Oct 1935, The Star] – General Election [Oct 1935, Nash’s Pall Mall Magazine] – Political
Murder [n.d., Hearst] – Lord Campbell
and Mr. Charles [9 Nov 1935, New
Statesman and Nation]
4. Travel: Beyond the Mexique Bay [B3].
iv. Vol. 4, 1936–1938: A5; B4; 11 uncollected essays.
1. Painting, Music,
Literature: Writers and Readers [A5] – T. H. Huxley as a Literary Man [A5] – Words and Behaviour [A5]
– Literature and Examinations [A5] –
Crébillon the Younger [A5] – D. H.
Lawrence [A5] – B. R. Haydon [A5]
2. History, Politics,
Social Criticism: Notes on Propaganda [Harper’s, 1936] – Total War and Pacifism
[Time and Tide, 7 Mar 1936] – A
Horrible Dilemma [Time and Tide, 14
Mar 1936] – If We Survive [The Star,
16 Mar 1936] – The Interpretation of History [Literary America, Apr 1936] – Race [The New Statesman’s and Nation,
9 May 1936] – People’s Front [For
Intellectual Liberty, Bulletin
No. 1, Nov 1936] – What Has Happened to the Prudes? [News Chronicle, 25 Nov 1936] – How to Improve the World? [Nash’s Pall Mall Magazine, Dec 1936] – The Man Without a Job [Sunday Chronicle (Manchester), 20 Dec
1936] – Pioneers of Britain’s “New Deal” [Sunday
Chronicle (Manchester), 27 Dec 1936]
– Modern Fetishism [A5] – English
Snobbery [A5] – New-Fashioned
Christmas [A5] – Waterworks and
Kings [A5] – Efficacy and
Limitations of Large-scale Social Reform [B4]
– Social Reform and Violence [B4] –
The Planned Society [B4] – Nature of
the Modern State [B4] –
Centralization and Decentralization [B4]
– Decentralization and Self-government [B4]
– War [B4] – Individual Work for
Reform [B4] – Inequality [B4] – Education [B4]
3. Science, Philosophy,
Religion: Time and the Machine [A5] – Historical Generalizations [A5] – Justifications [A5]
– Goals, Roads, and Contemporary Starting-point [B4] – The Nature of Explanation [B4] – Religious Practices [B4]
– Beliefs [B4] – Ethics [B4]
4. Travel: In a Tunisian Oasis [A5] – The
Olive Tree [A5]
v. Vol. 5, 1939–1956: A6; A7; E3; first half of B7;
excerpts from B5 and G2; 4 uncollected essays; 1
unpublished piece.
1. Politics, Religion,
Science: Politics and Religion [B5] – Introduction to The
Perennial Philosophy [G2] –
Stars and the Man [previously unpublished] – Variations on a Philosopher [A6] – The Double Crisis [A6] – A Case for ESP, PK, and Psi [11
Jan 1954, Life] – The Doors of
Perception [B7] – The Education of
an Amphibian [A7] – Knowledge and
Understanding [A7] – Adonis and the
Alphabet [A7] – Miracle in Lebanon [A7]
2. History, Politics,
Social Criticism: War and Peace [15 Nov 1943, Art News] – Science, Liberty, and Peace
[E3] – The French of Paris [Dec
1953, Esquire] – The Desert [A7] – Ozymandias [A7] – Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow [A7] – Censorship and Spoken Literature [A7] – Hyperion to a Satyr [A7]
– Mother [A7] – Usually Destroyed [A7] – Famagusta or Paphos [A7] – Faith, Taste, and History [A7] – Liberty, Quality, Machinery [A7] – Canned Fish [A7]
3. Art, Literature,
Music: Conversation with Stravinsky [11 Feb 1953, Vogue] – Art and Religion [A6] – Variations on a Baroque Tomb [A6] – Variations on El Greco [A6] – Variations on The Prisons [A6] – Variations on Goya [A6]
– [A Word About Dylan Thomas] [untitled MS of an address delivered on Sep 20,
1954, in Los Angeles] – Doodles in the Dictionary [A7] – Gesualdo: Variations on a Musical Theme [A7] – Domesticating Sex [A7]
vi. Vol. 6, 1956–1963: A8; E4; second half of B7; 30 uncollected essays.
1. Religion and Science: Heaven and Hell [B7] –
Facts and Fetishes [Esquire, Sep
1956] – A Case of Voluntary Ignorance [Esquire,
Oct 1956] – Post-Mortem on Bridey [Esquire,
Jan 1957] – The Oddest Science [Esquire,
Mar 1957] – Science, Technology, and Beauty [c. 1961, previously unpublished] –
Literature and Science [E3] –
Shakespeare and Religion [Show
magazine, 1964]
2. History, Politics,
Social Criticism: Back Numbers [Esquire, Apr 1956] – Where Do You Live?
[Esquire, May 1956] – Madness,
Badness, Sadness [Esquire, Jun 1956]
– Brave New World Revisited [Esquire,
Jul 1956] – Paradoxes of Progress [Esquire,
Nov 1956] – Can We Be Well-Educated? [Esquire,
Dec 1956] – Pleasures [Esquire, Feb
1957] – Politics and Biology [Esquire,
Apr 1957] – Brave New World Revisited [A8]
– Drugs That Shape Men’s Minds [Saturday
Evening Post, Oct 1958] – Education on the Nonverbal Level [Science and Technology in Contemporary
Society, Spring, 1962]
3. Art, Literature,
Music: Genius [Esquire,
Aug 1956] – Pre-Bach Music [The New York
Times, 17 Nov 1957] – Preface to The
Collected Essays [H4] –
Literature and Modern Life [c. 1961, previously unpublished] – Unpainted
Landscapes [Encounter, Oct 1956]
4. Supplement, 1920–1948: H. L. Mencken [Athenaeum, 2
Jan 1920] – Joseph Pfefferkorn and the “Epistolae Obscurorum Virorum” [Marginalia, 22 & 29 Oct 1920] – The
Lied [The Weekly Westminster Gazette,
24 Mar 1923] – The Inequality of Man [Week-end
Review, 10 Dec 1932] – Sex Y Z [Sunday
Referee, 4 Oct 1936] – Morals in 1837 [Nash’s
Pall Mall Magazine, Mar 1937] – If My Library Burned Tonight [Nov 1947] –
Religion and Time [Vedanta for the
Western World, 1948] – Religion and Temperament [Vedanta for the Western World,
1948]
H9.
After the Fireworks (2016)
a. Harper Perennial, 2016.
b. Notes. 3 novellas omitted from H3
and H6. Originally from D3, D4 and D5. The 1957 Avon edition titled After the
Fireworks and Other Stories is a reprint of Brief Candles (D5).
c. Contents: Uncle Spencer – Two or Three Graces – After the Fireworks.
