Ape and Essence (The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley) - Hardcover
When Aldous Huxley's Brave New World first appeared in 1932, it presented in terms of purest fantasy a society bent on self-destruction. Few of its outraged critics anticipated the onset of another world war with its Holocaust and atomic ruin. In 1948, seeing that the probable shape of his anti-utopia had been altered inevitably by the facts of history, Huxley wrote Ape and Essence. In this savage novel, using the form of a film scenario, he transports us to the year 2108. The setting is Los Angeles where a "rediscovery expedition" from New Zealand is trying to make sense of what is left. From chief botanist Alfred Poole we learn, to our dismay, about the twenty-second-century way of life. "It was inevitable that Mr. Huxley should have written this book: one could almost have seen it since Hiroshima is the necessary sequel to Brave New World."―Alfred Kazin. "The book has a certain awesome impressiveness; its sheer intractable bitterness cannot but affect the reader."―Time.
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Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), one of the most important English novelists of the twentieth century, is best known for Brave New World, Point Counter Point, Crome Yellow, and other novels, as well as his Collected Short Stories, also published by Ivan R. Dee.
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"The ultimate horror vision -- but one not without humor" * Los Angeles Times * "Ape and Essence leaves us in mingled respect of the author's intelligence and disgust for the world he had created" * Independent * "Clever, brutal, thoughtful, original...a nauseating vision of a still-possible future" -- Anthony Burgess "Powerfully moving" * Times Literary Supplement * "Painfully and majestically vivid; it is a great piece of work" * Guardian *
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- PublisherVintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)
- Publication date1975
- ISBN 10 0701107863
- ISBN 13 9780701107864
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