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.
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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.
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