Title: Young Archimedes
Title Record # 97321
Author: Aldous Huxley
Date: 1924-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Length: novelette
Language: English
Current Tags: music (1), mathematics (1), child prodigy (1), italy (1) Add Tags
Author: Aldous Huxley
Date: 1924-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Length: novelette
Language: English
Note: First published in Little Mexican, Chatto & Windus, 1924. This story appears in Fantasia Mathematica because the boy is a mathematical as well as a musical prodigy.
Synopsis: "'Young Archimedes' charts the tragic career of an unlettered Italian boy who turns out to be a virtuoso concert pianist; he then falls into the hands of an unscrupulous woman who exploits his talent and then kills it - and, indirectly, him." (Hugh Bredin)
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| Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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| Fantasia Mathematica | 1958-00-00 | ed. Clifton Fadiman | Simon & Schuster | $4.95?$: US dollar |
xix+ 298 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth |  |
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| Collected Short Stories | 1992-02-01 | Aldous Huxley | Elephant Paperbacks / Ivan R. Dee | 0-929587-81-2 | $14.95?$: US dollar |
395 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
coll | ||
| Fantasia Mathematica | 1997-05-00 | ed. Clifton Fadiman | Copernicus | 0-387-94931-3 | $19.95?$: US dollar |
xix+ 298 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
anth | Ilya Bolotowsky | |
| Fantasia Mathematica | date unknown | ed. Clifton Fadiman | Simon & Schuster | $1.45?$: US dollar |
xix+ 298 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
anth | Milton Glaser |