{"product_id":"2026100005253-secondhand-antic-hay","title":"Antic Hay","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Fair                          \u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing                  \u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Boards - worn; yellowed; frayed. Binding - shaky. Text - foxing on prelims and book block. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48820244578523,"sku":"2026100005253-SECONDHAND","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/51a130a4-e9a7-484c-ba8e-2458d823120f.png?v=1780055505","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100005253-secondhand-antic-hay","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}