Mortal Coils

Mortal Coils is a collection of 5 stories, which were written by Aldous Huxley in the 1920s. The first story, The Gioconda Smile, involves a short murder story. Permutations Among the Nightingales is a play concerning the amorous problems that various patrons of a certain establishment have. The Tillotson Banquet tells of an old artist who was thought to be dead. Green Tunnels is about the boredom of a young girl on holiday with her family. Nuns at Luncheon is a story being told of a nun falling in love. The story mocks the writer's process, a concept Huxley used in his Crome Yellow.