Ape and Essence

Paperback, 176 pages

English language

Published Jan. 22, 2008 by Vintage Books.

ISBN:
978-0-09-947778-5
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OCLC Number:
57382402

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Ape and Essence (1948) is a novel by Aldous Huxley, published by Chatto & Windus in the UK and Harper & Brothers in the US. It is set in a dystopia, as is Brave New World, Huxley's more famous work. It is largely a satire of the rise of large-scale warfare and warmongering in the 20th century, and presents a pessimistic view of the politics of mutually assured destruction. The book makes extensive use of surreal imagery, depicting humans as apes who, as a whole, will inevitably kill themselves.

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  • Modern fiction
  • Literary
  • Fiction / General
  • Fiction - General

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