Download or read book 7 best short stories by Aldous Huxley written by Aldous Huxley and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2021-07-25 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the 7 Best Short Stories book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. This edition is dedicated to the british author Aldous Huxley. Aldous Huxley was an English writer and philosopher, widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times and was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 1962. Works selected for this book: - Uncle Spencer; - Little Mexican; - Hubert And Minnie; - Fard; - The Portrait; - Young Archimedes; - The Gioconda Smile.
Download or read book Collected Short Stories written by Aldous Huxley and published by Ivan R. Dee. This book was released on 1992-02-01 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Aldous Huxley's Brave New World first appeared in 1932, it presented in terms of purest fantasy a society bent on self-destruction. Few of its outraged critics anticipated the onset of another world war with its Holocaust and atomic ruin. In 1948, seeing that the probable shape of his anti-utopia had been altered inevitably by the facts of history, Huxley wrote Ape and Essence. In this savage novel, using the form of a film scenario, he transports us to the year 2108. The setting is Los Angeles where a "rediscovery expedition" from New Zealand is trying to make sense of what is left. From chief botanist Alfred Poole we learn, to our dismay, about the twenty-second-century way of life. "It was inevitable that Mr. Huxley should have written this book: one could almost have seen it since Hiroshima is the necessary sequel to Brave New World."—Alfred Kazin. "The book has a certain awesome impressiveness; its sheer intractable bitterness cannot but affect the reader."—Time.
Download or read book Collected Short Stories written by Aldous Huxley and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 7 best short stories by Charles Dickens written by Charles Williams and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the 7 Best Short Stories book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. This edition is dedicated to the english author Charles Dickens. Charles Dickenswas an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read toda Works selected for this book: - A Child's Dream of a Star; - Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn; - Nobody's Story; - The Child's Story; - The Magic Fishbone; - What Christmas is As We Grow Older; - The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain.
Download or read book Mortal Coils written by Aldous Huxley and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mortal Coils (1921) is a collection of short fiction by English author Aldous Huxley. Focused on themes of love, taboo, disillusionment, and the writing process, these four stories and one play illuminate the young writer’s abundant wit and critical vision of life in twentieth century England. In “The Gioconda Smile,” a wealthy aristocrat named Henry Hutton invites the young Miss Janet Spence to dinner with him and his invalid wife Doris. After eating a dish against her doctor’s orders, Doris falls ill and is escorted to her room by her husband, after which Miss Spence goes home for the night. Taking the opportunity to see his mistress, Hutton leaves his wife alone, unwittingly, but perhaps unsurprisingly, welcoming disaster into his routinely dishonorable life. “The Tillotson Banquet” involves the unexpected rediscovery of a renowned artist who seemed to have disappeared without a trace in 1860 after painting his masterpiece at the age of twenty-six. Tasked with arranging an illustrious banquet for the man, Spode, the young man who at long last found Tillotson, scrambles to appease Lord Badgery, his illustrious benefactor. Mortal Coils compiles five short works of fiction by Aldous Huxley, a master-satirist and immensely gifted visionary whose work continues to astonish, humor, and terrify readers and critics alike. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Aldous Huxley’s Mortal Coils is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers.
Download or read book Jacob s Hands written by Aldous Huxley and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacob Ericson is a quiet, kind and somewhat simple man who works as a ranch hand for crotchety Professor Carter and his crippled daughter, Sharon, in California's Mojave Desert in the 1920s. Jacob is a good man, genuine, honorable, but hardly extraordinary–until he miraculously heals a dying calf with his hands. However, while he is content to cure the town's animals, it isn't long before he is persuaded to use his gift in other ways. When Sharon, whom he adores, begs him to heal her leg, he cannot deny her. His acquiescence causes them both to be exploited. Sharon runs away to Los Angeles to pursue her dreams of stardom. Jacob follows her, hopeful that they will meet again. And they do–as miserable performers in a seedy stage show. While they plan their escape from the dreary stage life, Jacob is asked to heal a self–absorbed young millionaire. And with his assent, Jacob's plans and all of his dreams begin to crumble. Written in tight, vivid, and seamlessly crafter prose, this previously unpublished tale by two of the greatest storytellers of the twentieth century shows the dangers a magical gift holds for even the noblest of characters.
Download or read book 7 best short stories Absurdist written by August Nemo and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Absurdist fiction is a genre of fictional narrative (traditionally, literary fiction), most often in the form of a novel, play, poem, or film, that focuses on the experiences of characters in situations where they cannot find any inherent purpose in life, most often represented by ultimately meaningless actions and events that call into question the certainty of existential concepts such as truth or value. The critic Augst Nemo selected seven short stories of the absurd for his appreciation: - A Country Doctor by Franz Kafka - In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka - Before the Law by Franz Kafka - Ex Oblivione by H. P. Lovecraft - Andrey Semyonovich by Daniil Kharms - A sonnet by Daniil Kharms - Symphony no. 2 by Daniil Kharms For more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection!
Download or read book The Short Stories of Aldous Huxley written by Arthur R. Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Two or Three Graces written by Aldous Huxley and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This short story collection by the author of Brave New World features a novella that “stands among Huxley’s most ingenious inventions” (Los Angeles Review of Books). In “Two or Three Graces,” the title novella of this collection, Aldous Huxley offers a virtuoso performance of narrative structure and character development. Beginning in Paris, music critic Dick Wilkes meets a succession of terribly entertaining bores as he travels to England. But after helplessly accepting one man’s invitation to dinner, Dick meets the truly fascinating Grace. A bourgeois housewife in the presence of her husband, Grace seems to take on other personalities depending on her company. Through Dick, the reader will follow these multiple Graces as she encounters multiple lovers. First published in 1926, this volume also includes the short stories “Half Holiday,” “The Monocle,” and “Fairy Godmother.”
Download or read book Limbo written by Aldous Huxley and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-29 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Limbo" is a collection of short fiction, consisting of six short stories and a play by Aldous Huxley, an English writer, and philosopher. This collection started his literary career and proved that his talent developed early.
Download or read book Aldous Huxley s Early Writings Including complete and Unabridged Crome Yellow The Burning Wheel The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems and Mortal Coils written by Aldous Huxley and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-25 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crome Yellow, is Huxley's first novel, published in 1921. It is a British manor satire where almost nothing happens - even less than normal for this genre. The characters are immaculately presented and manage to express immense profundity in tiny conversations. The writing is wonderful and each turn of phrase is a gem. Huxley's genius shines through the book. It is hilarious, wry and erudite. The Burning Wheel is Huxley's first collection of Poetry, published in 1916 before any of his novels. He was not allowed to fight in the Great War due to his very poor eyesight and so it is unsurprising that many of the thirty poems in this collection deal with light, sight and war. These poems show the Young Huxley at his most optimistic, even sentimental, although this is tempered by a second voice, that of an ironic modern commentator. The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems is Huxley's second book, published in 1918. There are thirty five poems and it starts with a poem that a contemporary called "the century's most successful sonnet sequence, better than Auden's or Edna St. Vincent Millay's." Mortal Coils is a collection of five short stories published in 1922, all of which are highly amusing and brilliantly written by the young Huxley.
Download or read book Great Short Works of Aldous Huxley written by Aldous Huxley and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Best Short Stories written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aldous Huxley written by Aldous Huxley and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Best Short Stories of 1926 written by Edward Joseph O'Brien and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mortal Coils Serapis Classics written by Aldous Huxley and published by Serapis Classics. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mortal Coils is a collection of five short fictional pieces written by Aldous Huxley in 1921. The title uses a phrase from Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1: ... To die, to sleep, To sleep, perchance to dream; aye, there's the rub, For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause ... The stories all concern themselves with some sort of trouble, normally of an amorous nature, and often ending with disappointment.
Download or read book The Best Short Stories of and the Yearbook of the American Short Story written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
