{"product_id":"now-more-than-ever-aldous-huxley-9780292728660","title":"Now More Than Ever","description":"\u003cp\u003e 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 This change in Huxley's thinking underlies the previously unpublished play \u003ci\u003eNow More Than Ever.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Written in 1932-1933 just after \u003ci\u003eBrave New World, Now More Than Ever\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This volume contains the full text of\u003ci\u003e Now More Than Ever, \u003c\/i\u003e 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 A \"thinker's play\" that has never been produced on stage, it is the last previously unpublished piece of Huxley's major writings and immensely important to understanding his development as a writer.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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Aldous Huxley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0292728662\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780292728660\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 123\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.37lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.29d","brand":"Aldous Huxley","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43913559146751,"sku":"9780292728660","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_142c9b00-824d-4b0f-816b-d69152964695.jpg?v=1680621050","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/now-more-than-ever-aldous-huxley-9780292728660","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}