Fiction Subjects, Science Fiction & Fantasy

Ape and Essence

Name: Ape and Essence
Author: Aldous Huxley
ISBN: 9780099477785

by Aldous Huxley

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Overview

When Aldous Huxley's Brave New World first appeared in 1932, it presented in terms of purest fantasy a society bent upon 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 22nd-century way of life.

About the Author, Aldous Huxley

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.