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Young Archimedes

Aldous Huxley

First published May 1924
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

"'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)

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.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
May 1924 Cover Little Mexican and Other Stories Chatto & Windus Collection 271
June 1924 Little Mexican and Other Stories Chatto & Windus Collection 271
1958 Cover Fantasia Mathematica Simon & Schuster Anthology 3
1961 Cover Fantasia Mathematica Simon & Schuster Anthology 3
February 1992 Cover Collected Short Stories Elephant Paperbacks / Ivan R. Dee Collection 225
May 1997 Cover Fantasia Mathematica Copernicus Anthology 3
February 2014 Cover Contos escolhidos Biblioteca Azul Collection