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Brief Candles

1930 collection of short stories by Aldous Huxley

Brief Candles is the fifth collection of short fiction written by Aldous Huxley, published in 1930. The book consists of three short stories and a novella.

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.

• "Chawdron"
• "The Rest Cure"
• "The Claxtons"
• "After the Fireworks", novella

Based on short story "The Claxtons":

• The Holy Family (1994), short film directed by Ulrich Weis

• Brief CandlesatFaded Page (Canada)
• Aldous Huxley at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Aldous HuxleyatIMDb

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