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LoC No.: 44049700
Title: Antic Hay
Note: Reading ease score: 75.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
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Summary: "Antic Hay" by Aldous Huxley is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story revolves around the main character, Theodore Gumbril Junior, a disenchanted schoolmaster whose existential musings and dissent against societal norms lead him to seek a new path in life. His reflections on the nature of existence, education, and personal ambition provide a satirical yet poignant critique of contemporary society. The opening of "Antic Hay" introduces us to Theodore Gumbril, who sits in a chapel, ruminating on the existence of God while attending to the sermon of Reverend Pelvey. Despite the solemnity surrounding him, Gumbril's thoughts drift to his own upbringing and the reality of his current life as a schoolmaster, which he finds unbearably tedious. The narrative captures his internal conflict as he grapples with profound philosophical questions amid the absurdities of his situation. Following the chapel scene, we glimpse his ambitions of creating "Gumbril's Patent Small-Clothes," an inflatable trouser design intended to provide comfort for sedentary individuals, revealing his desire to escape the mundanity of both his job and life in general. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Author: Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963
EBook No.: 60483
Published: Oct 13, 2019
Downloads: 192
Language: English
Subject: Satire
Subject: Intellectuals -- Fiction
Subject: City and town life -- Fiction
Subject: London (England) -- Fiction
Subject: Black humor
LoCC: Language and Literatures: English literature
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.
This edition has images.
LoC No.: 44049700
Title: Antic Hay
Note: Reading ease score: 75.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Credits:
Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team at http:
//www.pgdp.net
(This file was
produced from images generously made available by The
Internet Archive)
Summary: "Antic Hay" by Aldous Huxley is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story revolves around the main character, Theodore Gumbril Junior, a disenchanted schoolmaster whose existential musings and dissent against societal norms lead him to seek a new path in life. His reflections on the nature of existence, education, and personal ambition provide a satirical yet poignant critique of contemporary society. The opening of "Antic Hay" introduces us to Theodore Gumbril, who sits in a chapel, ruminating on the existence of God while attending to the sermon of Reverend Pelvey. Despite the solemnity surrounding him, Gumbril's thoughts drift to his own upbringing and the reality of his current life as a schoolmaster, which he finds unbearably tedious. The narrative captures his internal conflict as he grapples with profound philosophical questions amid the absurdities of his situation. Following the chapel scene, we glimpse his ambitions of creating "Gumbril's Patent Small-Clothes," an inflatable trouser design intended to provide comfort for sedentary individuals, revealing his desire to escape the mundanity of both his job and life in general. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Author: Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963
EBook No.: 60483
Published: Oct 13, 2019
Downloads: 192
Language: English
Subject: Satire
Subject: Intellectuals -- Fiction
Subject: City and town life -- Fiction
Subject: London (England) -- Fiction
Subject: Black humor
LoCC: Language and Literatures: English literature
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.