Little Mexican and Other Stories

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Little Mexican and Other Stories (Young Archimedes in the United States) is the third collection of short fiction written by Aldous Huxley, published in 1924. The book consists of four short stories, a novelette and a novella.

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"Young Archimedes" was adapted into a film, Prelude to Fame in 1950 and an Italian film, Il piccolo Archimede , in 1979.


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