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 twenty-second century, after the Third World War, when a civilization dedicated to "perfection" attempts to suppress all man's rebellious desires. — Like Brave New World, it has the shockingly sardonic quality and the acu... more »te insight into the challenges and dangers of our time which made Aldous Huxley one of our century's most potent satirists.
"Cold horror and evoked terror lighted with sharp Huxleyan humor..."« less
The book has a certain awesome impressiveness, its sheer, intractable bitterness cannot but affect the reader as Huxley chants his litanies over modern civilization.