Antic Hay
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Boards - worn; yellowed; frayed. Binding - shaky. Text - foxing on prelims and book block.
A sharp and satirical novel of ideas, Antic Hay chronicles a single day and night in the lives of a group of disillusioned London intellectuals adrift in the hedonistic aftermath of World War I. Huxley presents a cast of brilliantly drawn characters — artists, scientists, and would-be philosophers — each pursuing pleasure, meaning, or distraction with equal futility, their conversations crackling with wit and cynicism. The narrative skewers the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of the 1920s intelligentsia with a tone that is simultaneously comic and deeply melancholic, illustrating how a generation stripped of faith and purpose fills the void with empty ambition and hollow desire. Drawing its title from Christopher Marlowe's Edward II, the novel stands as one of Huxley's most exuberant early works, a caustic yet affectionate portrait of a world dancing recklessly in the ruins of old certainties.
Author: Aldous Huxley
Format: Hardback
Published: 1923, Chatto & Windus
Genre: Classic fiction
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Boards - worn; yellowed; frayed. Binding - shaky. Text - foxing on prelims and book block.
A sharp and satirical novel of ideas, Antic Hay chronicles a single day and night in the lives of a group of disillusioned London intellectuals adrift in the hedonistic aftermath of World War I. Huxley presents a cast of brilliantly drawn characters — artists, scientists, and would-be philosophers — each pursuing pleasure, meaning, or distraction with equal futility, their conversations crackling with wit and cynicism. The narrative skewers the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of the 1920s intelligentsia with a tone that is simultaneously comic and deeply melancholic, illustrating how a generation stripped of faith and purpose fills the void with empty ambition and hollow desire. Drawing its title from Christopher Marlowe's Edward II, the novel stands as one of Huxley's most exuberant early works, a caustic yet affectionate portrait of a world dancing recklessly in the ruins of old certainties.