Mortal Coils [Kindle Edition]

Aldous Huxley (Author)

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Product Description

Mortal Coils is a collection of five short stories, including perhaps his best known, The Gioconda Smile, representing Huxley's early work, written in 1922. ("Mortal Coils" is an old phrase, found in Shakespeare, referring to the body and its entaglements, which is cast off at death.) Huxley later went on to be a Hollywood screenwriter; Permutations Among the Nightingales is one of his earliest works in the form of a script for a play.

Also included: Permutations Among the Nightingales, The Tillotson Banquet, Green Tunnels, and Nuns at Luncheon.

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Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 321 KB
• Publisher: BLTC Press (February 22, 2008)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0014LI3A8
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #236,636 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

More About the Author

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) is the author of the classic novels Island, Eyeless in Gaza, and The Genius and the Goddess, as well as such critically acclaimed nonfiction works as The Devils of Loudun, The Doors of Perception, and The Perennial Philosophy. Born in Surrey, England, and educated at Oxford, he died in Los Angeles.