Aldous Huxley - Music At Night And other essays Penguin Books 1955. Dispatched with Royal Mail 2nd Class.Goid condition, some discoloration on spine and some shelf wear, minor mark on rear cover. Pages tanned, clean crisp no writting or tears, see photos The essays in this book cover different subjects, such as morality in arts ('To the Puritan All Things are Impure', a defence of his friendD. H. Lawrence), music ("After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music", he writes in 'The Rest is Silence'), similarities in the behaviour of men and cats ('Sermons in Cats'). Part of these essays may be regarded as a description of changes in society at the first half of the 20th century: 'Forehead Villanious Low' deals with the fruits ofuniversal education, while 'Art and the Great Truth' definesmodernist literatureas "A terror for the obvious in his [the writer's] artistic medium - (...) which leads him to make laborious efforts to destroy the gradually perfected instrument of language".