Antic HayLondon life just after World War I, devoid of values and moving headlong into chaos at breakneck speed -- Aldous Huxley's Antic Hay, like Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, portrays a world of lost souls madly pursuing both pleasure and meaning. Fake artists, third-rate poets, pompous critics, pseudo-scientists, con-men, bewildered romantics, cock-eyed futurists -- all inhabit this world spinning out of control, as wildly comic as it is disturbingly accurate. In a style that ranges from the lyrical to the absurd, and with characters whose identities shift and change as often as their names and appearances, Huxley has here invented a novel that bristles with life and energy, what the New York Times called "a delirium of sense enjoyment!" |
Contents
Section 1 | 7 |
Section 2 | 16 |
Section 3 | 48 |
Section 4 | 118 |
Section 5 | 148 |
Section 6 | 150 |
Section 7 | 163 |
Section 8 | 215 |
Section 9 | |
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