Time Must Have a Stop (British Literature) - Softcover

Huxley, Aldous

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564781801 ISBN 13: 9781564781802

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press, 2009

Synopsis

Sebastian Barnack, a handsome English schoolboy, goes to Italy for the summer, and there his real education begins. His teachers are two quite different men: Bruno Rontini, the saintly bookseller, who teaches him about things spiritual; and Uncle Eustace, who introduces him to life's profane pleasures. The novel that Aldous Huxley himself thought was his most successful at "fusing idea with story, " Time Must Have A Stop is part of Huxley's lifelong attempt to explore the dilemmas of twentieth-century man and to create characters who, though ill-equipped to solve the dilemmas, all go stumbling on in their painfully serious comedies (in this novel we have the dead atheist who returns in a seance to reveal what he has learned after death but is stuck with a second-rate medium who garbles his messages).

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Review:

A brilliant performance.--Edmund Wilson

Time Must Have a Stopexhibits Mr. Huxley's learning, his gift for limericks, an acute senseof the craft of poetry and a genuine power of modern poetic phrase, aflow of ribald expression and more than a feast of dark and desperateconclusions about sex.

Extraordinary erudition, nasty wit, nihilism . . . a prime performance.

The book is exciting because it is talented . . . an engagingly advanced accomplishment. --Thomas Mann

A brilliant performance. --Edmund Wilson

Time Must Have a Stop exhibits Mr. Huxley's learning, his gift for limericks, an acute sense of the craft of poetry and a genuine power of modern poetic phrase, a flow of ribald expression and more than a feast of dark and desperate conclusions about sex.

About the Author:

Aldous Huxley was born in 1894 near Godalming, Surrey. He began writing poetry and short stories in his early twenties, but it was his first novel, ‘Crome Yellow’ (1921), which established his literary reputation. This was swiftly followed by ‘Antic Hay (1923), ‘Those Barren Leaves’ (1925) and ‘Point Counter Point ‘(1928) – bright, brilliant satires in which Huxley wittily passed judgement on the shortcomings of contemporary society.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1564781801
• ISBN 13: 9781564781802
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280