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050 00 $aPR6015.U9$bT5 1998
082 00 $a823/.912$221
100 1 $aHuxley, Aldous,$d1894-1963.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80057246
245 10 $aThose barren leaves :$ba novel /$cAldous Huxley.
250 $a1st Dalkey Archive ed.
260 $aNormal, IL :$bDalkey Archive Press,$c1998.
300 $a310 pages ;$c21 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aColeman Dowell British literature series
520 $aAldous 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.
520 8 $aAldwinkle'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.
520 8 $aDeliciously 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.
650 0 $aArtists and patrons$zItaly$vFiction.
650 0 $aAuthors and readers$zItaly$vFiction.
655 7 $aHumorous fiction.$2gsafd
655 7 $aSatire.$2gsafd
830 0 $aColeman Dowell British literature series.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98008471
852 00 $bglx$hPR6015.U9$iT5 1998
852 00 $bbar$hPR6015.U9$iT5 1998