Brief Candles. Four Stories.

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 s...