Through the story of a West Coast millionaire obsessed with prolonging life, this novel satirizes aging, death, wealth, and moral emptiness. It sets science against superstition and art against commercialism to sharpen Huxley’s critique of civilization.

A caustic satire on the cost of wanting to live forever.

This scholarly study surveys English scholars and the institutions of learning that shaped them. It traces the evolution of academic culture from the Renaissance onward through the careers of individual scholars and the changing role of schools and universities.

A history of scholarship told through the scholars themselves.