The author wishes to thank his project manager, Amanda Coolidge; his co-editors Dr. Alix Hawley (Virigina Woolf); Ms. Kate Soles (Appendix: Glossary of Literary Terms); Dr. Derek Soles (Conrad, Yeats, Eliot, Appendix: Writing an Analysis of a Poem, Story or Play); and Drs. Brad Congdon, David Leon Higdon, Mary E. Kapke, Carol Lowe, Jerome Meckier, Colin Norman, Willi Real, as well as the editors of Aldous Huxley Annual (LIT Verlag), and English Studies in Canada for permission to reprint previously published essays in this open textbook.