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Little Mexican & Other Stories by Aldous Huxley | Classic 20th Century Short Fiction & Literary Satire - [DELUXE HARDBOUND EDITION]
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
08.08.2026
Verlag
MetconnectinSeitenzahl
130
Maße (L/B/H)
22,2/14,5/1,1 cm
Gewicht
244 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-81-682-0693-9
"Little Mexican & Other Stories" by Aldous Huxley is a collection of short stories written in the early 20th century. The stories often explore themes of identity, experience, and the complexities of the human condition, with a particular focus on the narrator's interactions and relationships with notable figures in his life, such as his Uncle Spencer. The work is likely to appeal to readers interested in introspective and character-driven narratives. "Uncle Spencer" is an exquisite novella by Aldous Huxley. It follows an aging World War I veteran's poignant, lifelong quest to find a lost love he first met inside a wartime prison camp. Diverging from his famous dystopian works, Huxley delivers a brilliant, character-driven exploration of memory, passion, and human illusion. "Little Mexican" is a short story that contrasts an old, lively, and unconventional Italian nobleman with his proper, conventional son. "Hubert and Minnie" explores the profound and transformative impact of a young man's first passionate love affair with an older woman, charting how mutual adoration reshapes his spiritual development and capacity to love. In "Fard" a self-absorbed and wealthy French woman quarrels constantly with her husband while her exhausted maid, Sophie, listens and packs for a trip; the mistress is repulsed by the exhausted, worn-out appearance of her overworked servant and heartlessly asks her to put on makeup ("fard") so that she looks less unpleasant. The Portrait - In The Portrait an art dealer named Mr. Bigger uses a clever, fabricated romantic backstory about a Venetian portrait to manipulate a wealthy client into buying the painting at a massively inflated price. Young Archimedes follows a gifted Italian peasant boy with a rare genius for mathematics and music whose life ends in tragedy after he is exploited and emotionally manipulated by a selfish, status-seeking landlady.
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