Philip Thody

Younger readers found Huxley's tale of free sex to be liberating.

A professor of literature at the University of Leeds, England, Philip Thody, says Brave New World was popular for the wrong reasons.

Most of the students to whom I've talked about Brave New World have confessed to me that they first of all read it because it depicted what you might call an adolescence utopia, that everybody could have everybody else.

The older members of society thought that it might leave them wicked and give rise to acts of uninhibited sexuality in Hyde Park.

F. Scott Fitzgerald called him the wittiest man writing in English.

Huxley is eminently worth reading.

Northrop Frye, former professor of literature at the University of Toronto.

There is a kind of integration in Huxley of interest in religion and science, which makes him a writer of the very highest cultivation.