The genius and the goddess
a novel
by Aldous Huxley · first published 1955
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The Genius and the Goddess (1955) is a novel by Aldous Huxley. It was published by Chatto & Windus in the UK and by Harper & Row in the US. It is 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.
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"The Genius and the Goddess" by Aldous Huxley. It's one of his lesser known works and also quite short (128 pp). I really like Huxleys way of waving thoughts on psychology and philosophy into a story and specially liked it in this…
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