

Mortal Coils
Author: Aldous Huxley
Narrator: Simon Vance
Unabridged: 4 hr 8 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 10/01/2011
Categories: Fiction, Short Stories, Historical Fiction
Author: Aldous Huxley
Narrator: Simon Vance
Unabridged: 4 hr 8 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 10/01/2011
Categories: Fiction, Short Stories, Historical Fiction
Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894–1963) was an English poet, novelist, dramatist, essayist, and humanist philosopher. He attended Eton and Oxford and briefly taught at Eton before devoting himself solely to writing. His fifth novel, Brave New World, is one of the most read books in literary history.
Simon Vance is an award-winning actor and an AudioFile Golden Voice with over fifty Earphones Awards and thirteen prestigious Audie Awards. He was named Booklist’s very first Voice of Choice in 2008 and an AudioFile Best Voice of 2009.
This little Penguin is a collection of five of Aldous Huxley’s short stories, and that made it a fascinating read for me because I’ve only ever read his iconic non-fiction before. It turns out that he’s just as good at writing fiction as he is as writing non-fiction. What’s interesting here is that i......more
I really enjoy Aldous Huxley. His literature takes me a while to piece together, because his descriptions and language don't read like modern text. Some of these stories have a very Lovecraftian vibe to them, which seems appropriate. These stories are pretty far removed from his Brave New World feel......more