id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4801 Aldous Huxley - Wikipedia .html text/html 7151 894 70 Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher.[1][2][3][4] He wrote nearly fifty books[5][6]—both novels and non-fiction works—as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems. He contracted the eye disease Keratitis punctata in 1911; this "left [him] practically blind for two to three years."[20] This "ended his early dreams of becoming a doctor."[21] In October 1913, Huxley entered Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied English literature.[22] He volunteered for the British Army in January 1916, for the Great War; however, he was rejected on health grounds, being half-blind in one eye.[22] His eyesight later partly recovered. Aldous Huxley, the author of Brave New World, died the same day as C. Aldous Huxley, as a writer of fiction in the 20th century, willingly assumes the role of a modern philosopher-king or literary prophet by examining the essence of what it means to be human in the modern age. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4801.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4801.txt