After Many A Summer
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Facsimile DJ L.L.C. Boards - fair; faded spine; some marks; Binding - tight. Text - clean.
A darkly comic satirical novel, After Many a Summer chronicles the misadventures of Jeremy Pordage, a mild-mannered English scholar hired by Jo Stoyte, a fabulously wealthy and death-obsessed California millionaire, to catalogue a collection of rare historical papers. Huxley uses this absurd premise to skewer American materialism, the cult of youth, and the desperate human fear of mortality, weaving in the philosophical musings of the sage Mr. Propter as a counterweight to the folly surrounding him. The narrative builds to a grotesque and unforgettable climax when the search for the secret of longevity uncovers a truth far more horrifying than death itself. Written with Huxley's characteristic wit and intellectual sharpness, the novel argues that the relentless pursuit of physical immortality, divorced from spiritual growth, leads not to transcendence but to a profound and darkly comic degradation of the human condition.
Author: Aldous Huxley
Format: Hardback
Published: 1939, Chatto and Windus
Genre: Classic fiction
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Facsimile DJ L.L.C. Boards - fair; faded spine; some marks; Binding - tight. Text - clean.
A darkly comic satirical novel, After Many a Summer chronicles the misadventures of Jeremy Pordage, a mild-mannered English scholar hired by Jo Stoyte, a fabulously wealthy and death-obsessed California millionaire, to catalogue a collection of rare historical papers. Huxley uses this absurd premise to skewer American materialism, the cult of youth, and the desperate human fear of mortality, weaving in the philosophical musings of the sage Mr. Propter as a counterweight to the folly surrounding him. The narrative builds to a grotesque and unforgettable climax when the search for the secret of longevity uncovers a truth far more horrifying than death itself. Written with Huxley's characteristic wit and intellectual sharpness, the novel argues that the relentless pursuit of physical immortality, divorced from spiritual growth, leads not to transcendence but to a profound and darkly comic degradation of the human condition.