Brief Candles - Aldous Huxley

Brief Candles

By Aldous Huxley

  • Release Date: 2022-12-27
  • Genre: Short Stories

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This collection of Huxley stories contains 'After the Fireworks' which is the length of a short novel and deals with the predicament of a well-known writer who finds himself approached as an oldish man, by an importunate female admirer who aspires at all costs to be his mistress. Three more stories - 'Chawdron', 'The Rest Cure' and 'The Claxtons' complete the volume.

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