London 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-sc
Antic Hay
โ Scribed by Huxley, Aldous
- Book ID
- 107607221
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 182 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
WITH A FOREWORD BY DAVID LODGE
When inspiration leads Theodore Gumbril to design a type of pneumatic trouser to ease the discomfort of sedentary life, he decides the time has come to give up teaching and seek his fortune in the metropolis. He soon finds himself caught up in the hedonistic world of his friends Mercaptan, Lypiatt and the thoroughly civilised Myra Viveash, and his burning ambitions begin to lose their urgency...
Wickedly funny and deliciously barbed, the novel epitomises the glittering neuroticism of the Twenties.
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