An edition of Those barren leaves, a novel (1925)

Those barren leaves

a novel

1st Dalkey Archive ed.
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An edition of Those barren leaves, a novel (1925)

Those barren leaves

a novel

1st Dalkey Archive ed.
  • 3.5 (2 ratings) ·
  • 7 Want to read
  • 3 Have read

Aldous Huxley spares no one in his ironic, piercing portrayal of a group gathered in an Italian palace by the socially ambitious and self-professed lover of art, Mrs. Aldwinkle. Here, Mrs. Aldwinkle yearns to recapture the glories of the Italian Renaissance, but her guests ultimately fail to fulfill her naive expectations. Among her entourage are: a suffering poet and reluctant editor of the Rabbit Fanciers' Gazette who silently bears the widowed Mrs.

Aldwinkle's desperate advances; a popular novelist who records every detail of her affair with another guest, the amorous Calamy, for future literary endeavors; and an aging sensualist philosopher who pursues a wealthy yet mentally-disabled heiress. Stripping the houseguests of their pretensions, Huxley reveals the superficiality of the cultural elite.

Deliciously satirical, Those Barren Leaves bites the hands of those who dare to posture or feign sophistication and is as comically fresh today as when first published.

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Language
English
Pages
310

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Cover of: Those Barren Leaves
Those Barren Leaves
January 22, 2008, Vintage Books
in English
Cover of: Those barren leaves
Those barren leaves: a novel
1998, Dalkey Archive Press
in English - 1st Dalkey Archive ed.
Cover of: Those barren leaves
Those barren leaves
1994, Flamingo
in English
Cover of: Those barren leaves
Those barren leaves: a novel
1949, Chatto & Windus
in English

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Edition Notes

Published in
Normal, IL
Series
Coleman Dowell British literature series

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.912
Library of Congress
PR6015.U9 T5 1998, PR6015.U9T5 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
310 p. ;
Number of pages
310

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL678747M
Internet Archive
thosebarrenleave00huxl
ISBN 10
1564781690
LCCN
97025220
OCLC/WorldCat
37107213
Library Thing
19933
Goodreads
207037

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