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Antic Hay is a novel by Aldous Huxley, published in 1923. The story takes place in London, and gives a satiric depiction [1] of the aimless or self-absorbed cultural elite in the sad and turbulent times following the end of World War I .
- Aldous Huxley
- 328 pp
- 1923
- 1923
Antic Hay, novel by Aldous Huxley, published in 1923. A satire of post-World War I London intellectuals, the work follows Theodore Gumbril, Jr., the protagonist, and his bohemian friends as they drift aimlessly through their lives in search of happiness. Huxley’s witty and allusive narrative style.
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Antic Hay is one of Aldous Huxley's earlier novels, and like them is primarily a novel of ideas involving conversations that disclose viewpoints rather than establish characters; its polemical theme unfolds against the backdrop of London's post-war nihilistic Bohemia.
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Aldous Huxley: Antic Hay. Huxley’s second novel continues the satirical trend that he had started in his first novel, though this time there is a more serious intent, namely the complete disillusionment of the post-war intellectual generation in England. The main characters try, in various ways, to amuse themselves but generally fail.
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- Aldous Huxley
- English
- 1923
- 44M
13 de oct. de 2019 · Gumbril, Theodore Gumbril Junior, B.A. Oxon., sat in his oaken stall on the north side of the School Chapel and wondered, as he listened through the uneasy silence of half a thousand schoolboys to the First Lesson, pondered, as he looked up at the vast window opposite, all blue and jaundiced and bloody with nineteenth-century glass, speculated in his rapid and rambling way about the existence ...
In the aftermath of the First World War, Theodore Gumbril, craving excitiment, embarks on a series of wild and immoral adventures with his bohemian friends, experiencing for the first time an exuberant lust for life that his previous conventional lifestyle lacked.Charged with excitement and Huxley’s trademark satirical bite, Antic Hay is ...
