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Brief Candles

By Aldous Huxley

$5.00

‘The twenties and Huxley are inseparable; he helped to create its atmosphere and also the change of atmosphere in which the decade ended’ (Walter Allen in Tradition and Dream).

Brief Candles, 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!

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