Collected Short Stories
  • Published:
    Mar-1992
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    Literary
  • Pages:
    395
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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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    • Feb-1992
    • Ivan R. Dee Publisher
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0929587812
    • ISBN13: 9780929587813
    •  
    • May-2014
    • Ivan R. Dee Publisher
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1299712924
    • ISBN13: 9781299712928
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    • Feb-1992
    • Ivan R. Dee
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Feb-1992
    • Dee, Ivan R. Publisher
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1461741378
    • ISBN13: 9781461741374



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