Six stories from 1924: “Uncle Spencer,” a boy’s memory of holidays with an eccentric uncle in Belgium; “Little Mexican,” about a hat and an Italian count’s family; “Hubert and Minnie”; “Fard”; “The Portrait”; and “Young Archimedes,” the story of a peasant boy’s mathematical genius in the Tuscan hills.
Huxley’s short fiction at its most humane, for readers who know only Brave New World. Download the free EPUB.