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The novel satirizes a cultured circle gathered at a grand hilltop Italian palazzo where an English hostess assembles artists, critics, and socialites whose ornate conversation and aesthetic posturing mask personal vanity and spiritual barrenness. Episodes center on an evening of entertaining, a fictional-autobiographical fragment, romantic entanglements among guests, a contested journey, and a final series of conclusions that interrogate art, taste, and sincerity. Through witty exchanges, caricatured personalities, and shifting narrative forms, the work exposes the gulf between cultivated ideas and lived feeling, questioning whether aestheticism offers genuine meaning or merely decorous escape.

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Title: Those barren leaves

Author: Aldous Huxley

Release date: September 18, 2024 [eBook #74437]

Language: English

Original publication: New York: George H. Doran Company, 1925

Credits: Emmanuel Ackerman, Chris Hapka and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THOSE BARREN LEAVES ***
THOSE BARREN
LEAVES

ALDOUS HUXLEY

BY THE SAME AUTHOR


  • THOSE BARREN LEAVES
  • YOUNG ARCHIMEDES:
    AND OTHER STORIES
  • ANTIC HAY
  • ON THE MARGIN
  • MORTAL COILS
  • CROME YELLOW
  • LIMBO
  • LEDA: AND OTHER POEMS

THOSE
 
BARREN LEAVES


BY ALDOUS HUXLEY

NEW YORK

GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY


COPYRIGHT, 1925,
BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
THOSE BARREN LEAVES
—B—
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

CONTENTS

PART   PAGE
I: AN EVENING AT MRS. ALDWINKLE’S 9
II: FRAGMENTS FROM THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF FRANCIS CHELIFER 93
III: THE LOVES OF THE PARALLELS 187
IV: THE JOURNEY 289
V: CONCLUSIONS 359