Antic Hay, Aldous Huxley
Antic Hay, Aldous Huxley
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Antic Hay

Author: Aldous Huxley

Narrator: Simon Vance

Unabridged: 9 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/28/2009

Categories: Fiction, Classic


Synopsis

Theodore Gumbril, a mild young Oxford tutor, has become thoroughly dismayed by the formality of college life and the staid British institutions of learning. An impetuous need for celebration, even rebellion, possesses him. He and his bohemian companions embark on wild and daring bacchanalian adventures that steer them resolutely away from stifling conventions of behavior, charging them for the first time with an exuberant vitality and lust for life.A sardonic and outspoken novel, Antic Hay unfolds its polemical theme against the backdrop of Londons postwar nihilistic Bohemia. This is Huxley at his biting, brilliant besta novel charged with excitement and loud with satiric laughter at conventional morality and stuffy people everywhere.

About Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) is the author of the classic novels Brave New World, Eyeless in Gaza, and The Genius and the Goddess, as well as such critically acclaimed nonfiction works as The Devils of Loudun, The Perennial Philosophy, and The Doors of Perception. Born in Surrey, England, and educated at Oxford, he died in Los Angeles, California.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Vit

A mad world exists for those who dare to have mad dreams… And they dance through their lives trying to invent, to love, to find happiness and their dance is called Antic Hay. Most lovers picture to themselves, in their mistresses, a secret reality, beyond and different from what they see every day. T......more

Goodreads review by Bram

Great novel of conversation. Very witty at times and a very modern feel to it.......more

171st book of 2020. Huxley’s 20s satires are equally frustrating as they are quite brilliant. They are largely plotless; if you look hard enough, there is a semblance of a plot driving through, but by and large, the book meanders, to use Alison’s term from the novel-structure book I read recently Mea......more