Dec 31, 2009

Point Counter Point | Point Counter Point

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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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