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After Many a Summer (1939) is a novel by Aldous Huxley that tells the story of a Hollywood millionaire who fears his impending death. It was published in the United States as After Many a Summer Dies the Swan.
- Aldous Huxley
- 1939
A Hollywood millionaire with a terror of death, whose personal physician happens to be working on a theory of longevity-these are the elements of Aldous Huxley's caustic and entertaining satire on man's desire to live indefinitely.
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- 1939
- Aldous Huxley
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21 de nov. de 2022 · After many a summer. by. Aldous Huxley. Publication date. 1980. Publisher. The Folio Society. Collection. internetarchivebooks; printdisabled; inlibrary.
Both have a somewhat naïve Oxford graduate if not as the hero, then as a major character, who struggles to cope with American ways. However, while Waugh likes nothing better than to attack and satirise, Huxley is now in his American phase and looking at life (and death) in a different way.
19 de mar. de 2020 · After many a summer by Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963. Publication date 1950 Topics Millionaires -- Fiction, Immortalism -- Fiction, Immortalism, Millionaires ...
Jo Stoyte is afraid of death. But Stoyte is also a millionaire, and so he pours his riches into scientific research, desperate to find the secret of immortality. This ruthless quest will enmesh everyone around him in a web of greed, seduction, murder and debasement.
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan, a comedic novel written by Aldous Huxley. Published in 1939 under the title After Many a Summer, the novel was republished under its current title later in the same year. Written soon after Huxley left England and settled in California, the novel is Huxley’s.
