Aldous Huxley
Cynthia
When my grandchildren ask me what I did at Oxford, I tell them that my friend Lykeham was an Exhibitioner at Swellfoot College. He combined blood with brains. Last night I went to see a capital...
Eupompus Gave Splendour to Art of Numbers
Emberlin made a discovery about Discoveries and smiled benignly at me as I entered his room. He had the power of stimulating others to talk well. Emberlin was academic, immensely erudite, but in a...
Happy Families
In a conservatory, tropical plants loom through a greenish aquarium twilight. The conservatory is palpitating and steaming with tropical life and heat. Two families enter the ballroom, Mr. Aston J....
The Bookshop
The inhabitants of the grand street did their shopping in the tiny shop, and the owner was standing in the doorway, a little man. He took the first volume that came to my hand. A bearded old man...
The Death of Lully
The sea lay in a breathing calm, and the galley stirred. Two figures were sleeping or playing at dice on deck, when a clamour rose up from the little African town. A young man lay down on his couch...