Ape and Essence Author:Aldous Huxley Ape and Essence is Aldous Huxley's savagely satiric successor to Brave New World. It is his horrific view of the world in the 22nd century, after the Third World War, when a civilization dedicated to "perfection" attempts to suppress all man's rebellious desires.
The book has a certain awesome impressiveness, its sheer, intractable bitterness cannot but affect the reader as Huxley chants his litanies over modern civilization.