The Genius and the Goddess.
First Edition of Aldous Huxley's The Genius and the Goddess
The Genius and the Goddess.
HUXLEY, Aldous.
$75.00
Item Number: 107884
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1955.
First edition of this classic Huxley novella. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Emil Antonucci.
The Genius and the Goddess is a novel originally published in 1955 by Aldous Huxley, author of The Brave New World. It tells the fictional account of John Rivers, a student physicist in the 1920s who was hired out of college as a laboratory assistant to Henry Maartens. It is packed with literary and socio-historical references and allusions. Huxley portrays various aspects of his ideology about subjects such as God, sex, history, literature, intellect and death.
