Antic Hay is a comic novel by Aldous Huxley, published in 1923. The story takes place in London, and depicts the aimless or self-absorbed cultural elite in the sad and turbulent times following the end of World War I. The book follows the lives of a...
Autumn weekends are to football junkies what Christmas is to kids - an extended period of time to immerse themselves in a carnival of enjoyment. Players get excited about the challenges before them, and fans get wrapped up in the pageantry and excitement...
ORPHAN ANTICS JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU: RESTLESS GENIUS BY LEO DAMROSCH NEW YORK: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN. 576 PAGES. $30. "Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains," wrote Jean-Jacques Rousseau in 1761, at the height of the Knlightennient. In that period of great optimism,...
[The setting of Antic Hay] is Henry James's London possessed by carnival. A chain of brilliant young people linked and interlaced winds past the burnished front-doors in pursuit of happiness. Happiness is growing wild for anyone to pick, only the perverse miss it. There has been the single unpredictable, inexplicable, unrepeatable calamity of "the Great War." It has left broken hearts—Mrs. Viveash's among them—but the other characters are newly liberated from their ...
