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conversations.value: Do you know a description for a book titled After Many a Summer Dies the Swan about Stoyte, England, California with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Contemporary?
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conversations.value: A comedic novel written by the author. Published in 1939 under the title After Many a Summer, the novel was republished under its current title later in the same year. Written soon after the author left England and settled in California, the novel is the author's examination of American culture, particularly what he saw as its narcissism, superficiality, and obsession with youth. The title is a line from Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem &#34;Tithonus,&#34; about a figure from Greek mythology to whom Zeus gave eternal life but not eternal youth. In the author's novel, California millionaire Jo Stoyte learns of an English nobleman who discovered a way to vastly extend the human life span. Stoyte travels to England and finds the nobleman still alive, but he has devolved into an apelike creature. Stoyte decides to extend his life regardless of the consequences. --The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature