{"product_id":"limbo-hardcover","title":"Limbo - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAldous Huxley\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMint Editions\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLimbo\u003c\/i\u003e (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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003ci\u003eLimbo\u003c\/i\u003e is an early collection of fiction from Aldous Huxley, presaging his satirical and dystopian novels with their abundant wit and unsparing, unmatched ire.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Aldous Huxley's \u003ci\u003eLimbo\u003c\/i\u003e is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Greenow leads a double life as a politically-engaged male academic by day, and a successful writer of women's fiction by night. A Chicago man journeys across the Atlantic in the middle of the First World War in order to catch up with an old friend in England. \u003ci\u003eLimbo\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of short fiction by Aldous Huxley.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 150\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.38 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 10, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42692293722175,"sku":"9781513206578","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/d01ba3d5bf5622d14aeae7f5159aaae9.webp?v=1764994962","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/limbo-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}