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.
From Limbo (1920):
From Crome Yellow (1921):
From Mortal Coils (1922):
From Little Mexican and Other Stories (1924):
From Two or Three Graces and Other Stories (1926):
From Brief Candles (1930):
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