Beskrivelse
This book (first published in 1930) is a collection of four short stories, including a longer novella-like piece which makes up roughly half the book. Although the four stories revolve around quite different plot structures, there is a common thread to most of their personae. Huxley uses these characters to portray the lack of emotional and spiritual depth that he was so concerned with and something he would expand upon so brilliantly – and famously – in his later books like “Brave New World” and “Brave New World Revisited”. “Brief Candles” is an excellent example of Huxley’s keen and satirical observation of society’s fads, fears and foibles.
