Dec 27, 2009
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan | After Many a Summer Dies the Swan
At a glance:
- Author: Aldous Huxley
- First Published: 1939
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Satire
- Time of Work: The late 1930’s
- Setting: Southern California
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire, Problem novel
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Philosophy or philosophers, Power, personal or social, Murder or homicide, Immortality, Social issues, 1930’s, California, West, U.S., Death or dying, Fishes, Longevity, Research
- Locales: California
Characters Discussed
Jeremy Pordage, an Englishman hired to work for six months in
California cataloging the Hauberk papers, twenty-seven crates of fragments of English history
relating to the Hauberk family. He has blue eyes and a bald spot on the top of his head, and he
wears spectacles; he looks the scholar and gentleman that he is. He is amazed by the vulgarity of
California and of his employer, Jo Stoyte, a self-made millionaire. Pordage is a bachelor tied to
an emotionally devouring mother. He is a civilized observer and, according to William Propter,
a potential...
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