Limbo

<p><I>Limbo</I> (1920) is a collection of short fiction by English author Aldous Huxley. Mostly satirical Huxley's novella play and four short stories show a promising writer at the very beginning of his career.</p><p>In the novella The Farcical History of Richard Greenow Huxley satirizes the lives of his friends and acquaintances at Eton and Oxford. Richard Greenow a young writer spends his days as a politically engaged academic. At night however he writes fiction for women crafting stories and serialized novels he sells to a prominent women's magazine. Finding success he realizes there is a woman inside him a writer named Pearl Bellairs who is as much a part of his identity as Richard Greenow is. When war breaks out however he must choose between his principled pacifism and his fear of prison a decision that pits his two unique identities against one another. Happily Ever After a story set during the First World War follows Peter Jacobsen a man with no nationality and no prejudices as he travels across the Atlantic to visit Pemberton his old friend from Oxford and a renowned scholar of philosophy. As friends and family converge on the stately Petherton home a classic comedy of manners ensues. <I>Limbo</I> is an early collection of fiction from Aldous Huxley presaging his satirical and dystopian novels with their abundant wit and unsparing unmatched ire.</p><p>With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript this edition of Aldous Huxley's <I>Limbo</I> is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers.</p>