Theodore Gumbril, bored schoolmaster, quits his post to market Gumbril’s Patent Small-Clothes, trousers with an inflatable seat. Disguised by a false beard as a bold Complete Man, he drifts through post-war London among painters, scientists, poets and the fatally careless Myra Viveash, in a round of parties that never quite fills the emptiness.
Huxley’s second novel, the 1923 satire that captured the restless mood of the generation after the war. Download the free EPUB.