The city has boasted an impressive colony of writers ever since, for their various reasons, Aldous Huxley, Thomas Mann, Bertold Brecht and F.

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Huxley's ability to knock out Hollywood scripts for Greer Garson while still thinking seriously about man's place in the universe (a universe which had been unravelling ever since his grandfather and Darwin had entered the public fray 80 years earlier) has not, by and large, recommended him to posterity.

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Other writers who fulfill this paradigm for me: Graham Greene (Our Man in Havana), Aldous Huxley (Brave New World) and George Orwell (1984) all instantly came to mind.

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Alex Huxley (41), Joe Carrasco (37) and Nick Williams (33) all chipped in for Oswestry's 171-8.

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