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Point Counter Point
(Paperback, 1996)
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Author: Aldous Huxley
Huxley's celebrated fictional portrait of London intellectuals in the 1920s includes such characters...
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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1564781313
ISBN-13: 9781564781314
Oct 1996
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Pr
432 pages
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Language: English |
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Synopsis
Huxley's celebrated fictional portrait of London intellectuals in the 1920s includes such characters as the decadent painter John Bidlake and his son Walter, Walter's hapless wife Marjorie Carling, the vile fascist politician Everard Webley, the thoroughly unpleasant Maurice Spandrell, and a revolutionary named Illidge. These characters are offset by Huxley's ideal couple, Mark and Mary Rampion, who provide the moral force in a novel that is often frighteningly cynical. (They may or may not be based on Huxley's friends D.H. Lawrence and Katherine Mansfield.) This satirical and unsparing vision of a particular world at a particular time is perhaps Huxley's greatest work.
| Size | | Length: | 432 pages | | Height: | 8.3 in | | Width: | 5.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 16.8 oz |
Industry Reviews
"'Point Counter Point' is the modern 'Vanity Fair', and Mr. Huxley is the Thackeray 'de nos jours'....It might have been said in its own day that 'Vanity Fair' was the richest novel in substance and the most comprehensive that had appeared in English. The same thing might be said today of 'Point Counter Point'."
New Republic - Robert M. Lovett (12/05/1928)
"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 and one of which this decade may very well be proud."
Lovett
"A powerful and vitriolic indictment of the intellectual world."
Bender
"Unflagging in its spirits and unflagging in its intelligence, throughout more than four hundred pages it vindicates Mr. Huxley's right to be considered the most able of our contemporary satirists and the most perfect representative of the mood which he describes."
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