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    Burning Wheel
    Burning Wheel
    Burning Wheel
    Audiobook47 minutes

    Burning Wheel

    Written by Aldous Huxley

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    Though Aldous Huxley is best known for his later novels and essays, he started his writing career as a poet. The Burning Wheel is his first work, a collection of thirty poems that pay homage in style to poets who wrote in the Romantic or the French symbolist styles. Many of the poems deal with themes of light, darkness, sight, music, art, war, and idealism vs. realism. Though the optimism in his early works waned as he became older, his characteristically optimistic and determined point of view shines through. - Summary by Mary Kay
    The last poem was read collaboratively by ezwa, AlgyPug and Larry Wilson.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    Burning Wheel
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    Aldous Huxley

    Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) is the author of the classic novels Brave New World, Island, Eyeless in Gaza, and The Genius and the Goddess, as well as such critically acclaimed nonfiction works as The Perennial Philosophy and The Doors of Perception. Born in Surrey, England, and educated at Oxford, he died in Los Angeles, California.

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