Antic Hay

A social satire dissecting morally bankrupt London society just after World War I, from the author of Brave New World.

Like Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, Aldous Huxley's Antic Hay, portrays a world of lost souls madly pursuing both pleasure and meaning. Fake artists, third-rate poets, pompous critics, pseudo-scientists, con-men, bewildered romantics, and cock-eyed futurists all inhabit this world spinning out of control, as wildly comic as it is disturbingly accurate. In a style that ranges from the lyrical to the absurd, and with characters whose identities shift and change as often as their names and appearances, Huxley has here invented a novel that bristles with life and energy, in what The New York Times called "a delirium of sense enjoyment!"

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 01/20/2026
ISBN: 9781628975680
Pages: 225
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.60d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 11/24/2025