Antic Hay

A social satire dissecting morally bankrupt London society just after World War I, from the author of Brave New World.

Like Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, Aldous Huxley's Antic Hay, portrays a world of lost souls madly pursuing both pleasure and meaning. Fake artists, third-rate poets, pompous critics, pseudo-scientists, con-men, bewildered romantics, and cock-eyed futurists all inhabit this world spinning out of control, as wildly comic as it is disturbingly accurate.

In a style that ranges from the lyrical to the absurd, and with characters whose identities shift and change as often as their names and appearances, Huxley has here invented a novel that bristles with life and energy, in what The New York Times called "a delirium of sense enjoyment!"

Author: Aldous Huxley
Afterword: John O'Brien
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Page Count: 225pp
Size: 5.5 x 8.5
Notes: paperback
Date of Publication: January 20, 2026
ISBN: 978-1628975680