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After many a summer dies the swan

A Hollywood millionaire with a terror of death has a personal physician who happens to be at work on a theory of longevity.

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  • "After many a summer dies the swan"@en
  • "a novel"

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  • "A Hollywood millionaire with a terror of death has a personal physician who happens to be at work on a theory of longevity."
  • "A Hollywood millionaire with a terror of death has a personal physician who happens to be at work on a theory of longevity."@en
  • "An American oil baron searches for longevity or immortality through the research of a personal physician. He finds it through the consumption of fish entrails."
  • "Jo Stoyte, an aging Hollywood millionaire, has had a successful life by many people's standards. However, driven by fear of his own mortality, Stoyte contemplates the meaning of life and death, surrounding himself with friends and colleagues who have their own ideas about the answers to these age-old questions. Published seven years after author Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan is a philosophical account of life and death. Many of the ideas laid out in After Many a Summer Dies the Swan are solidified in Huxley's final novel about human utopia, Island. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library."@en
  • "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 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."
  • "Multimillionaire is obsessed with the desire to live indefinitely."@en
  • "Multimillionaire is obsessed with the desire to live indefinitely."
  • "This is one of the clever and sceptical novels throughout a period of great conflict, it tells the consequences of living to a great age through non-human means."
  • "Satire set in Hollywood. A man seeks the secret of eternal life."
  • "Through the eyes of Jeremy Pordage, a scholar in middle age, the author examines the extreme wealth and poverty in California as well as the ageing process in humans and animals."@en

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  • "Science fiction, English"@en
  • "Science fiction"
  • "Science fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Authors' presentation copies (Provenance)"@en
  • "Classic fiction"
  • "Powieść angielska"
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "History"@en
  • "Black humor (Literature)"@en
  • "Black humor (Literature)"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Uncorrected proofs (Printing)"@en
  • "Black humor"@en
  • "Verhalend proza"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"

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  • "After many a summer dies the swan"
  • "After many a summer dies the swan"@en
  • "Viejo muera el cisne"@es
  • "Nach vielen Sommern ; Roman"
  • "After many a summer"@en
  • "After many a summer"
  • "After many a Summer, etc"@en
  • "Nach vielen Sommern Roman"
  • "After Many a Summer Dies the Swan A Novel"@en
  • "Po wielu latach"
  • "Po wielu latach"@pl
  • "After many a summer ... Original illustrations by Charles Keeping. [With plates, including a portrait.]"@en
  • "Na vele zomers"
  • "Posle mnogo leta"
  • "After many a summer :ba novel"@en
  • "After many a summer dies the swan : a novel"@en
  • "Efter många somrar"@sv
  • "Efter många somrar"
  • "... Viejo muere el cisne"
  • "<&gt"
  • "After many a summer : a novel"@en
  • "After many a summer : a novel"
  • "Nach vielen Sommern, Roman"
  • "Viejo muere el cisne"@es
  • "Viejo muere el cisne"@ca
  • "Viejo muere el cisne"
  • "After many a summer : Introd. by David Holloway. Ill. by Michael Foreman"
  • "After many a summer dies the swan. Complete and unabridged"@en
  • "Po řadě let ... : Román"
  • "After many a summer. A novel"
  • "After many a Summer : A novel"
  • "After many a summer : a novel. Huxley"@es
  • "بعد عدة أصياف"
  • "AFTER MANY A SUMMER"
  • "Nach vielen Sommern : Roman"
  • "After many a summer; a novel"@en
  • "After many a summer; a novel"
  • "Efter mangen en sommer : (Overs. fra engelsk efter "After many a summer" af Jørgen Budtz-Jørgeneen)"@da
  • "Tambem o cisne morre"
  • "Nice yazlardan sonra"
  • "Também o cisne morre"@pt
  • "Nach vielen Sommern"
  • "After many a summer dies the Swan"
  • "After many a summer : A novel"
  • "Poslije mnogih ljeta"
  • "After Many a Summer"
  • "After many a summer a novel"@en
  • "After many a summer a novel"
  • "Efter mangen en sommer"
  • "Efter mangen en sommer"@da
  • "Efter mangen en Sommer"@da
  • "Tambem O Cisne morre. trad. de paulo moreira da silva"@pt
  • "Nach vielen Sommern : Roman aus Hollywood"
  • "After many a summer dies the swan : Complete and unabridged"
  • "Viejo muere el Cisne"@es
  • "Po řadě let-- : román"
  • "I posle mnogikh vesen"

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