- Fiction, Millionaires, Immortalism, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
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 Aldous Huxley's caustic and entertaining satire on man's desire to live indefinitely.
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Meticulous, ironic, spare and cool.
- rawmeticulous
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Aldous Huxley
- First published
- 1939
- Pages
- 314
- Publisher
- Booket, I.R. Dee, Heron Books
- Editions
- 37
- Language
- English, Italian, Spanish, German
- ISBN
- 9780701107833
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Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly 50 books, both novels and non-fiction works, as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems.
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