Brief Candles Four Stories Author:Aldous Huxley Contains: — Chawdron — The Rest Cure — The Claxtons — After the Fireworks — It takes its title from a line in William Shakespeare's Macbeth, from Macbeth's famous soliloquy: "Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow that struts and frets its hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fur... more »y, signifying nothing."« less