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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,
Skulduggery Pleasant: Mortal Coil opened to largely positive reviews by critics.. Bernice Harrison (The Irish Times):The latest instalment in the Skulduggery series is everything Landy's fans have come to expect: tense, funny and – this is the crucial thing about the writer – magical[,] Landy is above all a superb storyteller with an imagination as full of glittering nuggets as King ...
Mortal Coils (1948), stage version to novelette "The Gioconda Smile" The Genius and the Goddess (1958), co-written with Betty Wendel, stage version to novel The Genius and the Goddess; The Ambassador of Captripedia (1967) Now More Than Ever (2000), lost play discovered by the Department of English Literature, University of Münster, Germany
Mortal coil" is a poetic term for the troubles of daily life and the strife and suffering of the world. It is used in the sense of a burden to be carried or abandoned. To "shuffle off this mortal coil" is to die, exemplified in the "To be, or not to be" soliloquy in Shakespeare's Hamlet.
The first novel was published in April 2007. The following novels were released each year afterward, with the exception of the fourth and fifth novels, Dark Days and Mortal Coil, which were both released in 2010. Landy was initially contracted to write three books, with any further books depending on how well the first trilogy sold.
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. There's the respect That makes Calamity of so long life: For who would bear the Whips and Scorns of time, The Oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, [F: poore] The pangs of despised Love, the law’s delay, [F: dispriz’d] The insolence of office, and the spurns
Mortal Coils, a 1922 collection of short stories by Aldous Huxley; Skulduggery Pleasant: Mortal Coil, the fifth book in the Skulduggery Pleasant series; This Mortal Coil, a 1947 collection of short stories by Cynthia Asquith
Eric S. Nylund (born November 12, 1964) is an American novelist and professional technical writer.His wife, Syne Mitchell, is also a science fiction writer. He holds a Bachelor of Science in chemistry from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a Master's degree in chemical physics from the University of California, San Diego. [1]