Little Mexican: Six Stories
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
From one of the twentieth century's most brilliantly sardonic minds comes Little Mexican, a collection of six short stories that showcases Aldous Huxley at his most wickedly perceptive and stylistically dazzling. Set against a vivid backdrop of post-WWI European society, the stories chronicle a cast of restless, often self-deluding characters — artists, intellectuals, lovers, and dreamers — whose encounters with desire, vanity, and disillusionment are rendered with razor-sharp wit and irresistible precision. Each tale unfolds as a miniature social comedy, piercing the veneer of civilised life to reveal the absurdities that lie beneath. A cornerstone of Huxley's early career, Little Mexican illustrates the author's remarkable gift for blending intellectual depth with compulsive readability, a quality that would later define masterworks such as Brave New World and Point Counter Point. His prose is at once elegant and merciless, dissecting human folly with the cool detachment of a surgeon and the warm irony of a humanist. Part of the prestigious Collected Works edition, this volume stands as essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the full range of a writer whose relevance has never dimmed — and whose most unsettling insights may still be waiting to be discovered.
Author: Aldous Huxley
Format: Hardback
Published: 1948, Chatto & Windus
Genre: Anthology
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
From one of the twentieth century's most brilliantly sardonic minds comes Little Mexican, a collection of six short stories that showcases Aldous Huxley at his most wickedly perceptive and stylistically dazzling. Set against a vivid backdrop of post-WWI European society, the stories chronicle a cast of restless, often self-deluding characters — artists, intellectuals, lovers, and dreamers — whose encounters with desire, vanity, and disillusionment are rendered with razor-sharp wit and irresistible precision. Each tale unfolds as a miniature social comedy, piercing the veneer of civilised life to reveal the absurdities that lie beneath. A cornerstone of Huxley's early career, Little Mexican illustrates the author's remarkable gift for blending intellectual depth with compulsive readability, a quality that would later define masterworks such as Brave New World and Point Counter Point. His prose is at once elegant and merciless, dissecting human folly with the cool detachment of a surgeon and the warm irony of a humanist. Part of the prestigious Collected Works edition, this volume stands as essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the full range of a writer whose relevance has never dimmed — and whose most unsettling insights may still be waiting to be discovered.