Mortal Coils

Mortal Coils is a collection of five short fictional pieces written by Aldous Huxley.The stories included are:The Gioconda Smile is a mixture of social satire and murder story. Permutations Among the Nightingales is a play concerning the amorous problems encountered by various patrons of a hotel.The Tillotson Banquet tells of an old artist who was thought to be dead and is rediscovered; a not entirely successful honorary dinner is organised for him.Green Tunnels is about the boredom of a young girl on holiday with her family. She develops a romantic fantasy and is ultimately disillusioned.Nuns at Luncheon is a second-hand story told of a nun falling in love. The story mocks the writer's process a concept Huxley used in his novel Crome Yellow.