Aldous Huxley Antic Hay review and information of the contant of the 1923 novel by the English writer about Londen after World War I. Dalkey Archive Presss wil publish the reissue of the novel by Aldous Huxley on January 20, 2026. On this page you can read information about the content of the novel, the author, reviews and ordering options

Aldous Huxley Antic Hay reviews and information of the 1923 novel

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• “Huxley is the creator-god of a beautiful new world which is wholly and peculiarly his own and which he peoples with antic folk whose adventures, always keenly intelligent and sparkling with wit, are elo­quently and continually amusing.” (Detroit News)
• “T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land is recalled by the casual allusions to classical lore, the devilishly clever garbling of familiar quotations and the total effect of dissolution. Mr. Huxley has the American poet’s flair for topical wit of a distinctly metropolitan flavor. . . . It is a brilliant, entertaining satire, with a faint suggestion of ‘ungestured sadness.” (The New York Times)
• “Antic Hay has the literary delights of the intelligence questionnaire, characters who don’t talk in conversations but in charades, with satire japing sophistication as well as the more obvious targets, engaging naughtiness narrated for its own sake, rising and falling in broad com­ edy and in episodes deliciously strange and tender.” (New Republic)

Antic Hay

• Author: Aldous Huxley (England)
• Afterword”John O’Brien
• Book type: English novel from 1923
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• To be released: January 20, 2026
• Length: 225 pages
• Format: paperback / ebook
• Prize: € 15,95 / € 8,95
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Blurb of the Aldous Huxley novel from 1923

A social satire dissecting morally bankrupt London society just after World War I, from the author of Brave New World.

Like Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, Aldous Huxley’s Antic Hay 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, and 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.

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.

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