Those Barren Leaves

by Aldous Huxley

Overview

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 naïve 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.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940162998372
Publisher:	JPU
Publication date:	01/08/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) was an English novelist, poet, essayist, and dramatist famous for his dystopian 1932 book Brave New World, set in a prescient, futuristic London and long a staple of middle–school curricula. Huxley was greatly concerned about the future of humanity and was often referred to as a humanist, although, with age, he became more focused on spirituality. By the end of his life, Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the preeminent intellectuals of his era and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in seven separate years.