Hardcover, 160 pages
English language
Published Jan. 1, 1975 by Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group).
Ape and Essence
Aldous Huxley: Ape and Essence (Hardcover, 1975, Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group))
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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.