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Aldous Huxley

Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly 50 books, both novels and non-fiction works, as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems.

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Two men, killed during the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, are permitted to return to the mortal world when two of their family in 1953 travel near where the two were buried. The two men cousins are brought back to help their young relatives who are in need of help. Along the way, the men and the pet monkey killed with them cause comedic incidences in which they manage to help more than just their relatives.

How the series evolves

beginning
#247 Brief Candles
4.0· strong start
peak
Murphy
4.3· best book in series
the pit
Saint's Progress
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finale
The rational and the superrational
0.0· messes up the ending
overall
1.8· maybe series needed more care

Books in this Series

#247

Brief Candles

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Two men, killed during the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, are permitted to return to the mortal world when two of their family in 1953 travel near where the two were buried. The two men cousins are brought back to help their young relatives who are in need of help. Along the way, the men and the pet monkey killed with them cause comedic incidences in which they manage to help more than just their relatives.

Murphy

4.3 (3)
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"The syndrome known as life is too diffuse to admit of palliation. For every symptom that is eased, another is made worse. The horse leech's daughter is a closed system. Her quantum of wantum cannot vary."

The Magician

3.8 (4)
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Dr. John Dee and Nicollo Machiavelli are after Nicholas Flamel and the secret to eternal life - Josh and Sophie Newman are the world's only hope...California: In the hands of Dr. John Dee and the Dark Elders, the book of Abraham the Mage could mean the destruction of the world as we know it. The most powerful book of all time, it holds the secret to eternal life. A secret more dangerous than any one man should ever hold. And Dee is two pages away from the knowledge that would bring the Dark Elders into ultimate power. His only obstacle? Josh and Sophie Newman - who are 8,000 miles away. Paris:After fleeing Ojai, Nicholas, Sophie, Josh, and Scatty emerge in Paris. The City of Lights. Home for Nicholas Flamel. Only this homecoming is anything but sweet. Perenell is still locked up back in Alcatraz and Paris is burning - with it, the last hopes for the human race. Nicollo Machiavelli, immortal author and celebrated art collector, is working for Dee. He's after them, and time is running out for Nicholas and Perenell. Every day spent without the book they age one year - their magic becomes weaker and their bodies, more frail. For Flamel the Prophesy is becoming more and more clear. It's time for Sophie to learn the second elemental magic. Fire Magic. And there's only one man who can teach it to her. Flamel's old student The Comte de Saint Germain--alchemist, magician, and rock star. Josh and Sophie Newman are the world's only hope. If they don't turn on each other first.

Happy days

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"Two characters--a woman buried up to her waist in the first act and up to her neck in the second, and a man who revolves around the mound in which she is placed--probe the tenuous connections that hold people to people and people to the universe in Happy Days"--Cover.

Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces

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KRAPP'S LAST TAPE is a monologue of a man who, after 30 years, plays back the autobiographical tape he had recorded on his 39th birthday. ALL THAT FALL is about the pilgrimage of an old Irish woman to meet her blind, grumbling husband at the train. In EMBERS, an old man and his wife ramble on and on. In ACT WITHOUT WORDS I, a man responds to inviting off-stage whistles only to be thrown back from the wings. ACT WITHOUT WORDS II has two men emerging from sacks tp perform corresponding motions of living.

Malone meurt

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"An old man is dying in a room. His bowl of soup comes, his pots are emptied. He waits to die. And while he waits, he constructs stories, mainly to pass the time. Saposcat, the Lambert family, Macmann and his nurse Moll. Other figures weave in and out of his vision and his imagination"--Publisher's web site.