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Point Counter Point Audiobook

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Read By: Stefan Rudnicki Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 13.33 hours at 1.5x Speed 10.00 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: February 2024 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9798212547291

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

39

Longest Chapter Length:

72:22 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

13 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

30:57 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

21

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Publisher Description

“Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody’s happy.”

In music, counterpoint is the art of writing melodies that play in conjunction with one another, according to a strict set of rules, in order to emphasize the melody by contrast. In debate, point/counterpoint is a means of persuasion in which the speaker begins by conceding to their opponent’s argument before refuting it wholeheartedly. Aldous Huxley follows these traditions in his masterpiece Point Counter Point.

The polarity between passion and reason in the intellectual life of the 1920s is demonstrated both in form and in theme in Huxley’s ambitious satire: This complex novel darts around points of view to portray the convoluted nature of perception versus reality, and it boasts a large cast of characters that come together, almost as an orchestra, performing separate melodies that coalesce in one great symphony.

Not only do these characters serve such a musical purpose in the plot but they also represent real life writers who were popular at the time, such as D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, John Middleton Murry, and even Huxley himself, in the form of Phillip Quarles, the “novelist” within the novel.

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“A splendid narration by Golden Voice Stefan Rudnicki. His exceptionally clear enunciation and steady pace help listeners take in what is arguably Huxley’s most complex work…Rudnicki’s resonant timbre and intelligent tone bring forth the author’s astute observations on class, wealth inequity, music, religion, family, love, and childhood illness.”

— AudioFile

Quotes

  • “Huxley…satirizes the intellectual life of the 1920s.”

    — Publishers Weekly
  • “Out of colossal disillusion Huxley has made Point Counter Point the most scintillating, the most bitter, and the most serious of his novels. It is a notable piece of work.”

    — Outlook
  • “The aim of this book is not idle amusement for the sophisticated but a grasping of the intellectual Zeitgeist and a biting criticism of it.”

    — New York Times

Awards

  • One of the Modern Library's 100 Best English-Language Novels of the Twentieth Century

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About Aldous Huxley

Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894–1963) was an English poet, novelist, dramatist, essayist, and humanist philosopher. He attended Eton and Oxford and briefly taught at Eton before devoting himself solely to writing. His fifth novel, Brave New World, is one of the most read books in literary history.

About Stefan Rudnicki

Stefan Rudnicki first became involved with audiobooks in 1994. Now a Grammy-winning audiobook producer, he has worked on more than five thousand audiobooks as a narrator, writer, producer, or director. He has narrated more than nine hundred audiobooks. A recipient of multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards, he was presented the coveted Audie Award for solo narration in 2005, 2007, and 2014, and was named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices in 2012.