Brief Candles
First edition cover (Chatto & Windus)
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."
External links[]
- Brief Candles at Faded Page (Canada)
Categories:
- 1930 short story collections
- Short story collections by Aldous Huxley
- Chatto & Windus books
- 1930s short story stubs
- Short story collection stubs