false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178271544m/778878.jpg 778878 5 Sebastian Barnack, a handsome English schoolboy, goes to Italy for the summer, & there his real education begins. His teachers are two quite different men: Bruno Rontini, the saintly bookseller, who teaches him about things spiritual; & 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," <i>Time Must Have a Stop</i> is part of Huxley's lifelong attempt to explore the dilemmas of twentieth-century humanity & 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). 19760 1982 Time Must Have a Stop (Coleman Dowell British Literature Series) total:136|5:23|4:49|3:49|2:12|1:3| 136 485 230 11 5 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 20 00:29:13 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 00:29:13 -0700 2009 'with what?'
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