Aldous Huxley

Mortal Coils Aldous Huxley

Mortal Coils is a collection of five pieces, which were written by Aldous Huxley in the 1920s. The first one, The Giaconda Smile, is a short murder story. Permutations among the Nightingales is a play concerning amorous problems had by patrons of a certain establishment. The Tillotson Banquet tells of an old artist who was thought to be dead. Green Tunnels is about the boredom of a young girl on holiday with her family. Nuns at Luncheon is a story being told of a nun falling in love. The story mocks the writer's process, a concept Huxley used in his Crome Yellow. Each story is read by the talented narrator, Simon Vance.