Jacob's Hands
by Aldous Huxley
2020-07-21 02:38:18
In the late 1930s, with war on the horizon, a large sector of the intellectual community of Europe immigrated to the United States, to California in particular. What they found there was Nirvana -- sunshine, freedom, mysticism, and the burgeoning mov...
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In the late 1930s, with war on the horizon, a large sector of the intellectual community of Europe immigrated to the United States, to California in particular. What they found there was Nirvana -- sunshine, freedom, mysticism, and the burgeoning movie industry. American writers such as William Faulkner and F. Scott Fitzgerald were trying their hands at the cinema, and the Europeans followed suit. Jacob's Hands is the result of a collaborative effort of two distinct geniuses in their fields, novelist/essayist Aldous Huxley and playwright/novelist Christopher Isherwood, whose stories of Berlin inspired Cabaret. Originally written far the screen, this fable has never been published before; it lay in a trunk at the Huxley estate for five decades before being discovered by actress Sharon Stone in 1997.
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