After Many a Summer Dies the Swan, Aldous Huxley
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan, Aldous Huxley
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After Many a Summer Dies the Swan
A Novel

Author: Aldous Huxley

Narrator: Robert Fass

Unabridged: 10 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/13/2026


Synopsis

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 Huxley's caustic and entertaining satire on man's desire to live indefinitely."A highly sensational plot that will keep astonishing you to practically the final sentence." —The New Yorker.

About Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) is the author of the classic novels Brave New World, Eyeless in Gaza, and The Genius and the Goddess, as well as such critically acclaimed nonfiction works as The Devils of Loudun, The Perennial Philosophy, and The Doors of Perception. Born in Surrey, England, and educated at Oxford, he died in Los Angeles, California.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bram on January 25, 2023

They could make this into a movie.......more

Goodreads review by Shamim on June 22, 2015

An interesting and enjoyable novel to read, no doubt! There is a story within the story. 'After Many a Summer Dies the Swan' unfurls another story in the guise of the holograph of the Fifth Earl: an 18th century English nobleman who, like the novel's protagonist, was equally interested in prolonging......more

Goodreads review by Valentina on January 13, 2022

The last enemy to be conquered is death. Or greed? Or capitalism? It remains to be seen.........more

Goodreads review by Philip on January 09, 2014

As novels go, After Many A Summer by Aldous Huxley presents something of the unexpected. It’s 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 debat......more

Goodreads review by Bob on September 14, 2016

Written when Huxley left England and settled in Southern California, After A Many a Summer satirizes Los Angeles culture (money-driven excess, gimcrack reproductions of classical European art and architecture, only bigger) in a way that is quite like Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One (which actually came......more