Antic Hay

Antic Hay is a comic novel by Aldous Huxley. Set in post-World War I London. Sometimes called a novel of ideas. The Story depicts the aimless or self-absorbed cultural elite in the sad and turbulent times following the end of World War I.When inspiration leads Theodore Gumbril to design a type of pneumatic trouser cushion to ease the discomfort of sedentary life he decides the time has come to give up teaching and seek his fortune in the metropolis. He soon finds himself caught up in the hedonistic world of his friends Mercaptan Lypiatt and the thoroughly civilised Myra Viveash and his burning ambitions begin to lose their urgency. . .Wickedly funny and deliciously barbed Antic Hay epitomises the glittering neuroticism of the twenties.