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After Many a Summer Dies the Swan

Aldous Huxley

Paperback | Pages: 368 pages

Rating: 3.75 | 2423 Users | 187 Reviews

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Original Title:	After Many a Summer
ISBN:	1566630185 (ISBN13: 9781566630184)
Edition Language:	English URL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Many_a_Summer_Dies_the_Swan
Characters:	Jo Stoyte
Literary Awards:	James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (1939)

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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. With his customary wit and intellectual sophistication, Huxley pursues his characters in their quest for the eternal, finishing on a note of horror. "This is Mr. Huxley's Hollywood novel, and you might expect it to be fantastic, extravagant, crazy and preposterous. It is all that, and heaven and hell too....It is the kind of novel that he is particularly the master of, where the most extraordinary and fortuitous events are followed by contemplative little essays on the meaning of life....The story is outrageously good."--New York Times. "A highly sensational plot that will keep astonishing you to practically the final sentence."--The New Yorker. "Mr. Huxley's elegant mockery, his cruel aptness of phrase, the revelations and the ingenious surprises he springs on the reader are those of a master craftsman; Mr. Huxley is at the top of his form." --London Times Literary Supplement.

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Title	:	After Many a Summer Dies the Swan
Author	:	Aldous Huxley
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 368 pages
Published	:	January 1st 1993 by Ivan R. Dee Publisher (first published 1939)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Philosophy. Literature. Novels

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I've noticed through the few reviews that I have scanned, and in the comments made by friends who have read this less-known Huxley novel, that it is widely considered to be a lesser work, a novel too bombastic to maintain proper momentum and sustain the reader's attention. To be candid, my roommate told me it took him nine months of toilet-reading to get through it, and he spent the two weeks that I was reading it (actually only a week when you factor in the days and days I spent out of town and

As novels go, After Many A Summer by Aldous Huxley presents something of the unexpected. Its a strange, rather perplexing experience. By the end, most readers will feel that what started as a novel somehow morphed into something different. What that something might be is probably a subject of debate. And exactly how of where the transformation took place will remain hard to define.At the outset, any review of the book should state that this text is rather verbose, uses long sentences that tend

I've noticed through the few reviews that I have scanned, and in the comments made by friends who have read this less-known Huxley novel, that it is widely considered to be a lesser work, a novel too bombastic to maintain proper momentum and sustain the reader's attention. To be candid, my roommate told me it took him nine months of toilet-reading to get through it, and he spent the two weeks that I was reading it (actually only a week when you factor in the days and days I spent out of town and

Huxley's "Brave New World" was, to me, a controversial and provoking novel that had just the right amount of thrill and philosophy. "After Many a Summer Dies the Swan" shares the same characteristics, with perhaps a bigger portion of discussion essays. I understand why it took some readers months to finish; the amount of philosophical discussion is large and the topics Huxley raised in this book are abstract and complex. Ideas of eternality, the withdrawal of one's personality, time and evil,

It was alright. the plot had great potential. and had nice build up, but Huxley diverted into some deeply philosophical mumbo-jumbo about 1/3rd of the way in and continued almost until the end. What could have been an exciting read goes wanting for plot treatment and a proper climax. potentially a great work of speculative fiction made mediocre by too much philosophizing. It would have been better of Huxley had designed the story itself to convey some of the ideas that he propounds (by means of

"After Many A Summer Dies The Swan" is a novel by Aldous Huxley originally published in 1939. The title originally was" After Many a Summer" but it was changed when published in the USA. The novel's title is taken from Tennyson's poem" Tithonus", about a figure in Greek mythology to whom Aurora gave eternal life but not eternal youth. The title is taken from the fourth line of the poem:"The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills

I first read this as a teenager, aware that my absent father was a Huxley fan. Later I would I discover from him that it was my unknown grandfather that was the real fan, and his interest in Huxley was tied up with his religious upbringing. I've read all the novels now, and started to read them again a few years ago; Brave New World because it was the world's favourite Huxley novel; Eyeless in Gaza because it was my favourite Huxley novel - a book which actually made a change to my own