Mortal Coils (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by Aldous Huxley

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411441859
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	03/01/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	228
Sales rank:	296,426
File size:	167 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) was brilliant satirist who became a famed novelist and critic, and wrote travel books, poems, plays, and essays. He is best known today for Brave New World (1932), a profoundly influential satirical science fiction dystopia that extrapolates a bleak future, and The Doors of Perception (1954), a controversial non-fiction book detailing his experiences with mescaline.