After Many a Summer (The Folio Society) [Dies the Swan]

239 pp. Introduction by David Holloway, color frontispiece and plates by Michael Foreman. 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. Originally published in the UK as After Many a Summer, the title was added to for the US release: After Many a Summer Dies the Swan.