Those Barren Leaves (British Literature Series)
“Brilliantly done;Those Barren Leaveshas humour, daring, some excellent fooling, remarkable erudition and plenty of Huxley's salacious irony.” (The Guardian)“Huxley has an utterly ruthless habit of building up an elaborate and sometimes almost romantic structure and then blowing it down with something too ironic to be called satire and too scornful to be called irony.” (F. Scott Fitzgerald)“It is brilliant and daring . . . humorous, witty, clever, cultured.” (Nation and Athenaeum)“The many-toned wit of the book, the beauty and shrewdness of its descriptions, the learning, the thought, the richness of character, the intellectual and artistic honesty of it . . . show that Mr. Huxley . . . will be a great novelist.” (Times Literary Supplement)