HUXLEY ALDOUS Group of 5 items Two Autograph Letters Signed

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HUXLEY, ALDOUS. Group of 5 items: Two Autograph Letters Signed, "Aldous H." or in full * Three typescripts, unsigned, each with scattered holograph corrections. The letters, to editor William Kozlenko, answering questions about Dostoevsky's novels or referring him to Harper & Bros. concerning a story. Together 3 pages, oblong 8vo or 4to, one on personal stationery; folds. One with the original envelope. The typescripts, each a draft for a short story or film treatment: two versions of an outline for a story involving "Roger Burnaby," and an outline for a story involving "Lord Badgery" [a version of "The Tillotson Banquet"?]. Together 12 pages, 4to, each stapled together at upper left corner; scattered folds. Vp, 1932-53

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1 September 1932: ". . . I re-read at least one or two of Dostoevsky's novels each year. I find everything he says absorbingly interesting--tho' I very often disagree with his view of life.
". . . Should [Dostoevsky] be a universal influence? To my mind, no; because his weltanschauung is rather horrible. Should he be more widely read? Yes; because he is the most intelligent man who has ever written novels (as well as one of the greatest of pure novelists) & he cannot touch any subject without saying something original & provocative of thought.
"As long as people continue to be interested in human character & what are called the problems of life, so long, surely, will they continue to read such books as The Brothers Karamazov, . . . ."
With--Aldous Huxley. Aun Aprendo: (I am still learning), unsigned copy of the commencement address he delivered to the Happy Valley School in Ojai, CA, on June 14, 1951. 8vo, wrappers, staple binding. Np, circa 1951.