Limbo - (Mint Editions) by Aldous Huxley (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><i>Limbo</i> (1920) is a collection of short fiction by English author Aldous Huxley. Mostly satirical, Huxley's novella, play, and four short stories show a promising writer at the very beginning of his career.</p> <p>In the novella "The Farcical History of Richard Greenow," Huxley satirizes the lives of his friends and acquaintances at Eton and Oxford. Richard Greenow, a young writer, spends his days as a politically engaged academic. At night, however, he writes fiction for women, crafting stories and serialized novels he sells to a prominent women's magazine. Finding success, he realizes there is a woman inside him, a writer named Pearl Bellairs who is as much a part of his identity as Richard Greenow is. When war breaks out, however, he must choose between his principled pacifism and his fear of prison, a decision that pits his two unique identities against one another. "Happily Ever After," a story set during the First World War, follows Peter Jacobsen, " a man with no nationality and no prejudices," as he travels across the Atlantic to visit Pemberton, his old friend from Oxford and a renowned scholar of philosophy. As friends and family converge on the stately Petherton home, a classic comedy of manners ensues. <i>Limbo</i> is an early collection of fiction from Aldous Huxley, presaging his satirical and dystopian novels with their abundant wit and unsparing, unmatched ire.</p> <p>With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Aldous Huxley's <i>Limbo</i> is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>Richard Greenow leads a double life as a politically-engaged male academic by day, and a successful writer of women's fiction by night. A Chicago man journeys across the Atlantic in the middle of the First World War in order to catch up with an old friend in England. <i>Limbo</i> is a collection of short fiction by Aldous Huxley.</p>
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