{"product_id":"antic-hay-by-aldous-huxley","title":"'Antic Hay' by Aldous Huxley","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"121\" data-end=\"639\"\u003eOne of Huxley’s early postwar satires, sharp with moneyed exhaustion, sexual drift, intellectual vanity, and the bright deadness of people mistaking chatter for life.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"121\" data-end=\"639\"\u003eSet among London’s bohemian and professional classes after the First World War, the novel follows Theodore Gumbril and a rotating cast of artists, cynics, poseurs, and restless lovers through parties, affairs, schemes, and talk. Lots of talk. Huxley is very good on the brittle comedy of a culture trying to replace conviction with style and appetite.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"641\" data-end=\"1074\"\u003eIt is also metaphysical in a sly way: a book about vacancy, performance, and what happens when cleverness becomes an anaesthetic. This is not peak Huxley for most readers in the way \u003cem data-start=\"887\" data-end=\"904\"\u003eBrave New World\u003c\/em\u003e is, but great for anyone interested in 1920s disillusionment, smart comic fiction, or the route by which English modernity turns into spiritual farce.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eGrafton paperback, \u003cstrong data-start=\"52\" data-end=\"68\"\u003e1986 reprint\u003c\/strong\u003e of the 1977 Grafton edition; first published 1923. Good condition, reading copy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44268697059411,"sku":null,"price":11.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign-2026-03-23T120543.110.png?v=1774227953","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/antic-hay-by-aldous-huxley","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}