Limbo (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.
In 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. Limbo is an early collection
of fiction from Aldous Huxley, presaging his satirical and dystopian
novels with their abundant wit and unsparing, unmatched ire.
With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript,
this edition of Aldous Huxley's Limbo is a classic of English
literature reimagined for modern readers.