Books with author Aldous Huxley

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"Crome Yellow is the first novel by British author Aldous Huxley, published in 1921. In the book, Huxley satirises the fads and fashions of the time. It is the story of a house party at Crome, a parodic version of Garsington Manor, home of Lady Ottoline Morrell, a house where authors such as Huxley and T. S. Eliot used to gather and write.The book contains a brief pre-figuring of Huxley's later novel, Brave New World. Mr. Scogan, one of the characters, describes an ""impersonal generation"" of the future that will ""take the place of Nature's hideous system. In vast state incubators, rows upon rows of gravid bottles will supply the world with the population it requires. The family system will disappear; society, sapped at its very base, will have to find new foundations; and Eros, beautifully and irresponsibly free, will flit like a gay butterfly from flower to flower through a sunlit world."""

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-scientists, con-men, bewildered romantics, cock-eyed futurists - all inhabit this world spinning out of control, as wildly comic as it is disturbingly accurate. In a style that ranges from the lyrical to the absurd, and with characters whose identities shift and change as often as their names and appearances, Huxley has here invented a novel that bristles with life and energy, what the New York Times called "a delirium of sense enjoyment!"

Antic Hay takes us to London and depicts the aimless and self-absorbed cultural elite in the sad and turbulent times following the end of World War I. The book follows the lives of a diverse cast of characters in bohemian, artistic and intellectual circles. The characters have to deal with the lack of values and stability brought by the terrible conflict. Everybody is lost but at the same time looking for happiness while everything is going out of control in a ridiculous and comic way. Huxley's satire lampooons conventional London behavior and morality in the 1920s.

A true First Edition, First printing (with appropriate statement & relevant points of issue) of Huxley's masterful follow-up to this dystopian masterpiece, Brave New World (1932). Here, he cautions that many of the threats to individual freedom--particularly dictatorship by drugs--that he warned about are fast becoming a reality. What would he think of us now? Hardcover book with black paper-over-boards & a quarter green cloth-wrapped spine with black lettering is in VG condition: very clean, pages off-white, but no foxing. NO writing, highlighting or underlining except for a small old price in pen on ffep; NOT ex-lib. Only real flaw is bumped corners all around & some denting/spotting to top & bottom external page edges. The unclipped DJ looks nice protected in a Free archival mylar cover, but is downgraded to only Good due to soiling (most noticeably a round coffee stain to front cover right through last word in title), & light creasing/edgewear. Please see our photos! Description & photos copyright Gargoyle Books 2019. Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); Weekends & holidays ship next business day. PLEASE NOTE; AMAZON'S PHOTOS OF THIS RED BOOK ARE NOT OURS & SHOW THE WRONG BOOK. THAT IS A REPRINT OFFERED BY ANOTHER DEALER--NOT THE FIRST. SEE OUR 2 PHOTOS BY OUR LISTING.

A witty recounting of a house party, wherein Huxley satirises the fads and fashions of the time--we hear the history of the house 'Crome' from Henry Wimbush, its owner and self-appointed historian; apocalypse is prophesied, virginity is lost, and inspirational aphorisms are gained in a trance. The protagonist, Denis Stone, tries to capture it all in poetry and is disappointed in love.

Antic Hay takes place in London, and depicts the aimless or self-absorbed cultural elite in the sad and turbulent times following the end of World War I. The story follows one Theodore Gumbril in his invention of Gumbril's Patent Small-Clothes, trousers which contain a pneumatic cushion in the seat. Gumbril's quest for love occasionally makes him resort to utilizing "The Complete Man" which is a disguise he concocts around a false full beard. He relates to a diverse cast of characters in bohemian, artistic and intellectual circles. Everybody is lost but at the same time looking for happiness while everything is going out of control in a ridiculous and comic way.