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Those Barren Leaves

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • Published: 07/04/2005

  • ISBN: 9780099477792

  • Length: 336  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 19mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 235g

  • RRP: £9.99

Those Barren Leaves

Aldous Huxley

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

  • Published: 07/04/2005

  • 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 (1894 – 1963) was an English writer, novelist, philosopher and a prominent member of the Huxley family. He was best known for his novels including Brave New World, set in a dystopian London, and for non-fiction books, such as The Doors of Perception, which recalls experiences when taking a psychedelic drug, and a wide-ranging output of essays. He spent the later part of his life in the U.S., living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death. Huxley was a humanist, pacifist, and satirist. By the end of his life, Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his time. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in seven different years.

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