Mortal Coils

Mortal Coils is a collection of five short fictional pieces written by Aldous Huxley, published in 1921.

The book consists of three short stories, a novelette and a play.

The title uses a phrase from Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1: [...] To die, to sleep, To sleep, perchance to dream; aye, there's the rub, For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,

Must give us pause [...]The stories all concern themselves with some sort of trouble, normally of an amorous nature, and often ending with disappointment.

Based on novelette "The Gioconda Smile": Based on play Mortal Coils: Play: