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Those Barren Leaves

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099477792

  • Length: 336  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 19mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 235g

  • RRP: £9.99

Those Barren Leaves

In a renovated Italian palace set above the blue of the sea, the Junoesque figure of Mrs Aldwinkle moves among her guests. These include a poet who earns his living editing The Rabbit Fancier's Gazette; a popular novelist who records every detail of her affair with another guest as future literary material; an aging philosopher who pursues a wealthy yet mentally-disabled heiress and a pair of na-ve and charming young lovers. 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 it was first published.

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099477792

  • Length: 336  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 19mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 235g

  • RRP: £9.99

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About the Author

Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley came to literary fame in 1921 with his first novel, Crome Yellow. With the novels Antic Hay, Those Barren Leaves and Point Counter Point, Huxley quickly established a reputation for bright, brilliant satires that ruthlessly passed judgement on the shortcomings of contemporary society. In later life, exploration of the inner life through mysticism and hallucinogenic drugs dominated Huxley’s writing, including his first-person account of experiencing mescaline in The Doors of Perception. Aldous Huxley died in 1963.

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