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Time Must Have a StopAuthor: Aldous Huxley British Literature Series July 1998 280 pages, 5.5 x 8 Paperback, 1-56478-180-1 Retail Paperback Price: Our Paperback Price: $10.80 
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Book Description
Sebastian Barnack, a handsome English schoolboy, goes to Italy for the summer, and there his real education begins. His teachers are two quite different men: Bruno Rontini, the saintly bookseller, who teaches him about things spiritual; and Uncle Eustace, who introduces him to life's profane pleasures.
The novel that Aldous Huxley himself thought was his most successful at "fusing idea with story," Time Must Have a Stop is part of Huxley's lifelong attempt to explore the dilemmas of twentieth-century man and to create characters who, though ill-equipped to solve the dilemmas, all go stumbling on in their painfully serious comedies (in this novel we have the dead atheist who returns in a seance to reveal what he has learned after death but is stuck with a second-rate medium who garbles his messages).
Time Must Have a Stop is one of Huxley's finest achievements.
About the Author
| Considered to be one of the most significant British writers of the twentieth century, Aldous Huxley is the author of a dozen novels, including Time Must Have a Stop, Antic Hay, Crome Yellow, and Those Barren Leaves, all of which are available from Dalkey Archive Press. He also wrote over thirty volumes of poetry, short stories, and essays during his lifetime. |  |
Praise
"The book is exciting because it is talented . . . an engagingly advanced accomplishment."—Thomas Mann"A brilliant performance."—Edmund Wilson, New Yorker
"Time Must Have a Stop exhibits Mr. Huxley's learning, his gift for limericks, an acute sense of the craft of poetry and a genuine power of modern poetic phrase, a flow of ribald expression and more than a feast of dark and desperate conclusions about sex."—Times Literary Supplement
"This is Mr. Huxley's best novel for a very long time . . . admirably constructed . . . bright and sun-pierced."—New Statesman and Nation
"Extraordinary erudition, nasty wit, nihilism . . . a prime performance."—Kirkus
More Information
Also by Aldous Huxley:Antic Hay
Crome Yellow
Point Counter Point
Those Barren Leaves