Aldous Huxley Time Must Have a Stop review and information of the 1944 novel written the English writer. Dalkey Archive Press will publish the reissue of the Aldous Huxley novel on August 11, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.
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- “Highly readable and highly instructive.” (New York Times)
- “Mr. Huxley has provided a case history of himself. It is a novel about a gay old dog, a selfish sensualist and aesthete … a youthful poet, a saintly Italian anti-fascist, and the ghost of the cynical reprobate in heaven.” (Yale Review)
Time Must Have a Stop
- Author: Aldous Huxley (England)
- Book type: English novel from 1944
- Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
- To be released: August 11, 2026
- Length: 350 pages
- Format: paperback / ebook
- Prize: € 16,95 / € 8,95
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Blurb of the 1944 novel by Aldous Huxley
From the author of Brave New World comes the story of Sebastian Barnack, a naive young poet on holiday with his uncle in Florence—where his real education begins.
Against his father’s wishes, Sebastian visits his uncle in Italy with the objective of finding formal wear, but stumbles into so much more than a shopping trip. Among other adventures, he embarks upon his first love affair with an older woman; inherits, sells, then steals a Dégas painting; attends a botched séance; and incurs the wrath of the Italian Fascisti. As always with Huxley’s fiction, a genuine novel-of-ideas lurks just beneath the satirical surface, as Sebastian’s heart is torn between two competing philosophies: the hedonistic materialism embodied by his uncle Eustace and the spiritual wisdom of his uncle Bruno.
The novel that Huxley himself thought was his most successful at “fusing idea with story,” Time Must Have a Stop is part of Huxley’s lifelong attempt to explore the dilemmas of twentieth-century persons and to create characters who, though ill-equipped to solve those dilemmas, all go stumbling on in their painfully serious comedies.
Aldous Huxley was born on July 26, 1894 in Godalming, Surrey, England. He was an English writer who spent the latter part of 
his life in the United States. Though best known for Brave New World, he also wrote countless works of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and essays. A humanist, pacifist and satirist, he wrote novels and other works that functioned as critiques of social norms and ideals. Aldous Huxley is often considered a leader of modern thought and one of the most important literary and philosophical voices of the 20th century. Huxley died on November 22, 1963 at the age of 69 in Los Angeles County, California in the United States.