After Many a Summer Dies the Swan : A Novel (Paperback)

from PghDragonMan

One of Huxley's more accessible satires, especially to American readers. This is due in part to the novel being set in California of the mid Twentieth Century. In addition to poking fun at the Cali...

from lauriebrown54

This book is a somewhat odd mash-up of satire and philosophical lecture. On the one hand, we have an uber rich old man, Jo Stoyte, who lives in a castle in the San Fernando Valley. He owns a bank, ...

from P_S_Patrick

Standard fare for Huxley here, make fun of various types of people, put in a selection of philosophical musings, and make sure there is some sort of human interest - a love triangle or an affair or...

from ursula

Jeremy Pordage is an English archivist who takes a job working for Jo Stoyte, a millionaire Californian who collects valuable objects without much knowledge about or interest in them. Stoyte's late...

from figre

This starts out as a very interesting study of the strange types of people who populated (actually still populate) Los Angeles. There are the rich and the beautiful and the power-hungry and the naï...