- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins Canada / Trade (Jan 20 1994)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0006547427
- ISBN-13: 978-0006547426
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 240 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #250,635 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Library Journal
Although Blackstone is to be commended for rediscovering many older literary classics, these two early Huxley novels might better have been left to rest in peace. Crome Yellow (1921) depicts an aristocratic cast of eccentrics in a British country house who do nothing but talk...and talk.... Antic Way (1923) shifts to a similar group of Bohemians in London who spend hours in elegant restaurants discussing art and philosophy. With so much conversation and so little action, reading these books aloud is unquestionably the best way to dramatize Huxley's brilliant dialog. Robert Whitfield does it full justice and proves that he is now one of the best narrators in the business. Recommended only for Huxley fans.AJo Carr, Sarasota, FL
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
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"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 comedy and in episodes deliciously strange and tender." -- New Republic 12-12-23
"Astonishing. . . . [A] first-rate performance." -- New York Tribune 12-2-23
"There is in [Antic Hay] a delirium of sense enjoyment. . . . Mr. Huxley has the American poet's flair for topical wit of a distinctly metropolitan flavor. . . . Antic Hay is satirical light literature, done with a deft, sure touch. The portraits, or rather travesties, of the characters are the most delightful features. . . . [A]ll of them joyously and maliciously portrayed. . . . It is a brilliant, entertaining satire, with a faint suggestion of 'ungestured sadness.'" -- New York Times 11-25-23
"This new intensity of emotion gives a new savour to the wit which is, after all, what we read Mr. Huxley for." -- New Statesman 11-10-23
"[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 12-9-23 --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
"Astonishing. . . . [A] first-rate performance." -- New York Tribune 12-2-23
"There is in [Antic Hay] a delirium of sense enjoyment. . . . Mr. Huxley has the American poet's flair for topical wit of a distinctly metropolitan flavor. . . . Antic Hay is satirical light literature, done with a deft, sure touch. The portraits, or rather travesties, of the characters are the most delightful features. . . . [A]ll of them joyously and maliciously portrayed. . . . It is a brilliant, entertaining satire, with a faint suggestion of 'ungestured sadness.'" -- New York Times 11-25-23
"This new intensity of emotion gives a new savour to the wit which is, after all, what we read Mr. Huxley for." -- New Statesman 11-10-23
"[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 12-9-23 --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Inflatable pants for every one!,
This review is from: Antic Hay (Paperback)
Huxley I can usually take or leave, but not Antic Hay: there are just too many farces to decipher for me to put it down. Huxley's women are beautiful and easy; his men are amoral and excrutiatingly clever. But underlying their antics is a novel of incredible complexity. Huxley makes his attentive readers squirm as we recognize our own pretensions and idiocies in his archetypal characters. Ouch, ouch, ouch. The other gift in this novel is that it has helped me appreciate and understand the work of other writers such as Waugh and Mitford: i.e., in order to enjoy them, you have to suspend your own understanding of life and realize that there actually was a thriving class of people in England who didn't have jobs, relied on servants, and had no lives to speak of. And were bored to tears by their sumptuous privilege, believe it or no. For modern readers, I'd say this is a pretty tough read. I know a respectable amount of both French and Latin, and I had to look up at least part of most of those passages. But if you're prepping for the vocabulary section of the GRE or the SAT...this book will provide you with myriad words to look up and learn, including the wonderful "callipygous". Maybe I should give the rest of Huxley's work another reading...
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Like 'The Great Gatsby', only its actually good,
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This review is from: Antic Hay (Paperback)
I'm a huge fan of Huxley's novels, and I believe Antic Hay is his best. Its a novel for intellectuals, being about the people in the 1920's who actually thought. The characterizations are rich and meaningful, and the disillusionment of the post-WWI era is poetically portrayed within a simple, realistic plot.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Aimless lives, aimless story,
By Paul Mastin (Fort Worth, Texas) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Antic Hay (Paperback)
As a huge fan of "Brave New World," I picked up "Antic Hay" anticipating the same depth of social commentary. I was sadly disappointed. Huxley does present an occasionally mildly entertaining picture of post-WW2, upper-middle-class life in London, much like Fitzgerald did for New York in "The Great Gatsby," but the meandering, pointless lives of the characters produced a meandering, pointless novel. In this regard, I was also reminded of "Catcher in the Rye," another novel whose place on the dais of great literature is undeserved. Altogether an unsatisfying read.
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