Point Counter Point (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Aldous Huxley
- First Published: 1928
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: 1920’s
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Roman à clef
- Subjects: Middle classes, Marriage, 1920’s, Novelists, England or English people, Adultery, Moral conditions, Satire
- Locales: London, England
Places Discussed
Tantamount House. Home of the Tantamount family in one of the most fashionable addresses in London—on Pall Mall Street, between the Reform Club and the Traveller’s Club, not far from St. James Palace. Designed in 1839 in an ostentatious Italianate style by the architect Charles Barry (who also designed London’s Houses of Parliament), the house retains most of its original features—including a statue of Venus by Antonio Canova that decorates the marble staircase. However, part of the top floor has been converted into a biological laboratory by the...
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