Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Aldous Huxley NPG x10664

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Howard Coster

Huxley was arguably Britain's best-known novelist of the inter-war years. His reputation followed the success of Brave New World (1932), which, set 500 years in the future, conjured a nightmare vision of an overpopulated society that has resorted to biological engineering. It followed a string of satirical works: Crome Yellow (1921), Antic Hay (1923) and Those Barren Leaves (1925). Huxley later moved to the USA, where, partly due to interest in Hindu Vedantist ideas, his writing turned to pacifism, metaphysics and the potential of human... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.