- Intellectual life, Novelists, Fiction, Intellectuals
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.
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Relentless, prestige, open-ended and comic.
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Aldous Huxley
- First published
- September 2, 2004
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Yumani Shobō, Audio Book Contractors, Inc., Bibliotech Press
- Editions
- 78
- Language
- Polish, English, Russian, Japanese
- ISBN
- 9781564781499
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Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly 50 books, both novels and non-fiction works, as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems.
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