Aldous Huxley 
Mortal Coils (Serapis Classics) 

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