Collected Short Stories (Huxley)

Collected Short Stories

First US edition
Author	Aldous Huxley
Language	English
Genre	Short story collection
Publisher	Harper & Row (US) Chatto & Windus (UK)
Publication date	1957

Collected Short Stories is a collection of short fiction by Aldous Huxley, published in 1957. The book consists of twenty stories compiled from five of Huxley's earlier collections (18 short stories and two novelettes) and one from his novel Crome Yellow . It was published by Harper & Row in the US and Chatto & Windus in the UK. ^[1]

Content

From Limbo (1920):

• "Happily Ever After"
• "Eupompus Gave Splendour to Art by Numbers"
• "Cynthia"
• "The Bookshop"
• "The Death of Lully"

From Crome Yellow (1921):

• "Sir Hercules"

From Mortal Coils (1922):

• "The Gioconda Smile", novelette
• "The Tillotson Banquet"
• "Green Tunnels"
• "Nuns at Luncheon"

From Little Mexican and Other Stories (1924):

• "Little Mexican"
• "Hubert and Minnie"
• "Fard"
• "The Portrait"
• "Young Archimedes", novelette

From Two or Three Graces and Other Stories (1926):

• "Half Holiday"
• "The Monocle"
• "Fairy Godmother"

From Brief Candles (1930):

• "Chawdron"
• "The Rest Cure"
• "The Claxtons"

References

1. "Collected Short Stories". Aldous Huxley Archive. Retrieved 6 November 2025.

External links

• Collected Short Stories title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database