Time Must Have a StopSebastian 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. |
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 33 |
Section 3 | 92 |
Section 4 | 117 |
Section 5 | 122 |
Section 6 | 144 |
Section 7 | 154 |
Section 8 | 188 |
Section 9 | 191 |
Section 10 | 198 |
Section 11 | 219 |
Section 12 | 254 |
Section 13 | |