This is an auction for BRIEF CANDLES by Aldous Huxley.

From Wikipedia:

"Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963) was an English writer, novelist, philosopher, and prominent member of the Huxley family. He graduated from Balliol College at the University of Oxford with a first class honours degree in English literature. He was best known for his novels including Brave New World, set in a dystopian future; for nonfiction works, such as The Doors of Perception, which recalls experiences when taking a psychedelic drug; and a wide-ranging output of essays. Early in his career Huxley edited the magazine Oxford Poetry and published short stories and poetry. Mid career and later, he published travel writing, film stories, and scripts. He spent the later part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death. In 1962, a year before his death, he was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature. Huxley was a humanist, pacifist, and satirist.He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in seven different years... 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..."

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Penguin paperback 1973.

206 pages.

Good condition.

The cost of shipping is $3.95.

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