Point Counter Point (British Literature) - Softcover

Huxley, Aldous; Mosley, Nicholas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564781313 ISBN 13: 9781564781314

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press, 2009

Synopsis

One of Huxley's masterpieces--one of the Modern Library's "100 Best Works of the Century."

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Review:

Out of colossal disillusion Huxley has made Point Counter Point the most scintillating, the most bitter and the most serious of his novels. It is a notable piece of work.

The aim of this book is not idle amusement for the sophisticated, but a grasping of the intellectual Zeitgeist and a biting criticism of it.

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Some reviews of Point Counter Point
'Huxley's style is at once dry and rich, intellectual and sensuous, scholarly and romantic. Point Counter Point is extremely funny with passages of rich and gorgeous farce.' Observer

'As a piece of satire, often brilliant, sometimes wise, Point Counter Point is a monstrous exposure of a society which confuses pleasure with happiness, sensation with sensibility, mood with opinion, opinion with conviction and self with God.' Guardian

Often described as a Vanity Fair for the Twenties, Point Counter Point contains wickedly accurate portraits of D.H.Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Ottoline Morrell and Huxley himself.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1564781313
• ISBN 13: 9781564781314
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432