Mortal Coils (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

By Aldous Huxley

Published in 1922, this second collection of short fiction by Huxley contains his most famous story, "The Gioconda Smile," a murder mystery filmed in 1947 as A Woman's Vengeance, "The Tillotson Banquet," in which an artist may not be as dead as he seems, and "Green Tunnels," about a young girl's romantic disillusionment.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Barnes & Noble
• Release date: Mar 1, 2011
• ISBN: 9781411441859

Aldous Huxley

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

Reviews for Mortal Coils (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

[deusxmachina-1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Huxley is a master of description and characterisation, in dialogue as well as in exposition, and he is not nice to his figures. His cast is brilliantly portrayed, and it's the clash of characters resulting in toxic relationships of outwardly utterly normal people that makes these relatively simple plots so riveting.Also learned that script-like stories don't work well with TtS software - d'uh.