{"product_id":"aldous-huxleys-after-many-a-summer-penguin-1965","title":"Aldous Huxley’s After Many a Summer - Penguin 1965","description":"\u003cbr\u003eTitle: After Many a Summer\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Aldous Huxley\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003ePublication Date: 1965\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Softcover\u003cbr\u003eCondition: The book is in good condition for its age other than some minor signs of wear.\u003c!-- split --\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eReader's note\u003c\/h2\u003e\nA lovely 1965 edition of Aldous Huxley’s After Many a Summer. Like Brave New World, After Many a Summer is a kind of fantastic parable. In Mr. Huxley's earlier book the vehicle of the parable was a tragic-comical romance of the future. In this novel it is a rich extravaganza with a contemporary setting that is in part American, in part English. Central to this extravaganza is the story, at once grotesque and realistic, farcical and reflective, of an attempt on the part of a rich man to prolong the span of human life indefinitely. In terms of this fantastic, sometimes nightmarish talked, told with unsurpassed wit and brilliance, the book treats the ultimate topics of all philosophy - bondage, and liberation, reality and illusion, the problems of good, the nature of evil.","brand":"Country House Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39861075443799,"sku":"7861172","price":11.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2458\/8207\/products\/orig_243437_jpg.jpg?v=1658932102","url":"https:\/\/countryhouselibrary.co.uk\/products\/aldous-huxleys-after-many-a-summer-penguin-1965","provider":"Country House Library ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}