Europe is between wars. The ferment of the first third of this century threatens to bubble over yet again.
Anthony Beavis, cynical, assured, without financial worries or family ties, is in pursuit of liberty. But what does it mean? He i free to be taken up by the glamorous, promiscuous Mary Amberley; free to take up with her daughter, Helen. He is free to betray the love of his closest friend; free to use or waste the abilities that could be his.
But in Mexico, in a time of crisis, Beavis meets a man whe understands liberty. Through him, the pieces of Aldous Huxley’s superb literary jigsaw puzzle come tightly toge
Far better than anything else he has written, both in intellectual and imaginative power’
EDWIN MUIR
« His finest novel … he has gained in depth, but he has lost none of his lightness and his gift for making us laugh’
DAVID GARNETT
