Ape and Essence - Softcover

Huxley, Aldous

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0929587782 ISBN 13: 9780929587783

Publisher: Ivan R. Dee, 1992

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

Review:

"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 *

About this edition

• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0929587782
• ISBN 13: 9780929587783
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 222