Books with title Antic Hay: A Novel

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 London's postwar nihilistic bohemia. This is Huxley at his biting, brilliant best--a novel charged with excitement and loud with satiric laughter at conventional morality and stuffy people everywhere.

'Antic Hay' is one of the funniest and simultaneously most important of Aldous Huxley's novels. The target is fashionable London of the 1920's - and Mr. Huxley leaves it devastated. Conventional pursuits and aspirations, conventional behavior, conventional morality are gleefully shredded in this wildly irreverent satire. On display are all the wit, sophistication, and penetrating insight for which the author is famous.

1923. 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. This is Huxley at his biting, brilliant best, a novel, loud with derisive laughter, which satirically scoffs at all conventional morality and at stuffy people everywhere, a novel that's always charged with excitement. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.