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Ape and Essence
Ape and Essence
Author: Aldous Huxley
A society dedicated to "perfection" must defer to the fool-proof, talent-proof, inspiration-proof machine. Human desire, the enemy of Reason and Order, must be held in check. — APE AND ESSENCE is Aldous Huxley's savagely satirical novel of a society which tries to legislate desire?ruled by eunuchs and dedicated to Belial?where the normal urges o...  more »
ISBN: 229268
Publication Date: 1958
Pages: 152
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Publisher: Bantam
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The book has a certain awesome impressiveness, its sheer, intractable bitterness cannot but affect the reader as Huxley chants his litanies over modern civilization.


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