Brief Candles. Four Stories.

Brief Candles (1930), Aldous Huxley's fifth collection of short fiction, consists of the following four short stories:"e;Chawdron"e;"e;The Rest Cure"e;"e;The Claxtons"e;"e;After the Fireworks"e;Brief Candles takes its title from a line in William Shakespeare's Macbeth, from Macbeth's famous soliloquy: "e;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."e;