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After Many a Summer

Aldous Huxley

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#458 of 8,085 books · #124 in Science Fiction

Won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1939).

A comedic novel written by Aldous Huxley. Written soon after Huxley left England and settled in California, the novel is Huxley's examination of American culture, particularly what he saw as its narcissism, superficiality, and obsession with youth. The title is a line from Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem "Tithonus," about a figure from Greek mythology to whom Zeus gave eternal life but not eternal youth. In Huxley's novel, California millionaire Jo Stoyte learns of an English nobleman who discovered a way to vastly extend the human life span. Stoyte travels to England and finds the nobleman still alive, but he has devolved into an apelike creature. Stoyte decides to extend his life regardless of the consequences.

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Publisher
Avon Pub. Co.
ISBN-13
9780701107833
Topics
Mortality and immortalitySatire of American cultureObsession with youth

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