Brief Candles. Four Stories.
Author | : Aldous Huxley |
Publisher | : Wildside Press LLC |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2021-03-12 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781479457595 |
ISBN-13 | : 1479457590 |
Rating | : 4/5 (590 Downloads) |
Download or read book Brief Candles. Four Stories. written by Aldous Huxley and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2021-03-12 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brief Candles (1930), Aldous Huxley's fifth collection of short fiction, consists of the following four short stories: "Chawdron" "The Rest Cure" "The Claxtons" "After the Fireworks" Brief Candles takes its title from a line in William Shakespeare's Macbeth, from Macbeth's famous soliloquy: "Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."