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From the Back Cover:
First published in 1934, Beyond the Mexique Bay is Huxley s splendidly witty and idiosyncratic account of his travels in Guatemala and Mexico, a journey made long before Central America was on the tourist trail. Wandering through the green and fertile coffee plantations of the Antigua valley, reading Spinoza on a train journey from Oaxaca to Puebla, marvelling at the Diego Rivera frescoes in Mexico City and contemplating the Mayan preoccupation with time and mortality, Huxley is an inimitable and endlessly entertaining guide. No other writer can approach Huxley s sense of proportion or his discriminating fervour. An immensely readable book written in prose of crystalline and sustained beauty.
January 1, 2021 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1925 are open to all!
On January 1, 2021, copyrighted works from 1925 will enter the US public domain,1 where they will be free for all to use and build upon. These works include books such as F. Scott Fitzgerald’s
The Great Gatsby, Virginia Woolf’s
Mrs. Dalloway, Ernest Hemingway’s
In Our Time, and Franz Kafka’s
The Trial (in the original German), silent films featuring Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton, and music ranging from the jazz standard
Sweet Georgia Brown to songs by Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, W.C. Handy, and Fats Waller.
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