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Antic Hay by Aldous Huxley

jgwc54e5's review

3.0

A comic novel about the useless classes in the early 1920s. The main character invents gumbrils patented small clothes! Pneumatic trousers for comfort. It seems quite modern particularly about sex and religion. 3* because I don’t read latin and there’s also references I don’t really get.

kjcharles's review

Huxley's first book, a satire of dreadful people in the early 1920s. Flashes of brilliance in description don't make up for the plotlessness, or several lengthy and excruciating stretches of thinly disguised authorial hobbyhorse-racing, and it's full of misogyny including a nasty victim-blaming rape scene, racism, and antisemitism. Deeply avoidable.