Collected Short Stories

✍ Scribed by Huxley, Aldous

• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 498 KB
• Series: Elephant paperbacks
• Edition: 1st Elephant paperback ed
• Category: Fiction
• City: Chicago
• ISBN-13: 9780929587813

✦ Synopsis

Aldous Huxley's stature as one of the giants of modern English prose and of social commentary in our time is confirmed in this gathering of his distinguished stories into a single volume. Twenty-one pieces are here, including "The Gioconda Smile," "Little Mexican," "Young Archimedes," and "Chawdron." Together they offer a complete view of Huxley's work in the genre, in which he established himself as an acknowledged master.

Manchester Guardian

These stories ... reveal in snatches the real nature of his genius, which is essentially discursive, argumentative, analytical, and omnivorous.... [He is] always stimulating because of the sharp inquiring intellect at work, moving with equal liveliness to pinpoint an absurdity of character, as in 'Chawdron,' or to feast on the pleasure of Italian life and painting.

✦ Subjects

Fiction