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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
21 de nov. de 2022 · After many a summer. by. Aldous Huxley. Publication date. 1980. Publisher. The Folio Society. Collection. internetarchivebooks; printdisabled; inlibrary.
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after many a summer dies the swan. Me only cruel immortality.
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.
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.
The Hearst-like owner, Jo Stoyte, has made a fortune from oil but also has many other interests, including surreptitiously buying up land in the San Fernando valley, because of the water rights (shades of Chinatown!).
