After Many A Summer - Aldous Huxley

After Many A Summer

by Aldous Huxley

Triad Panther, 1976 (1939), paperback, 154 pp. plus 1 p. adverts

Condition: good - binding firm but tender, paper toned with age, covers rubbed, spine creased.

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. 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 obsession with youth. This satire also raises philosophical and social issues, some of which would later take the forefront in Huxley's final novel. The novel's title is taken from 's poem about a figure in Greek mythology to whom Aurora gave eternal life but not eternal youth. The book was awarded the 1939 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. [Source: Wikipedia]