Short pieces written for periodicals in the early 1920s, ranging from the marble quarries of the Apuan Alps and the vogue for centenaries to re-reading Voltaire’s Candide, the medieval sin of accidie, the proper subject-matter of poetry, water music, popular songs and the follies of bibliophily. Huxley also compares the faces of fashionable beauties in 1880 and 1920.
Witty, learned and sceptical, these essays show the young author of Crome Yellow at play. Download the free EPUB.