Brief Candles
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| Author | Aldous Huxley |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | Chatto & Windus |
Publication date | 1930 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
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.
