Brief Candles. Four Stories.

Brief Candles. Four Stories.
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Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages : 249
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ISBN-10 : 9781479457595
ISBN-13 : 1479457590
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Book Synopsis Brief Candles. Four Stories. by : Aldous Huxley

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."


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