Ape and Essence Author:Aldous Huxley 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 of men and women are punishable by death. Are similar trends threatening our world now
The book has a certain awesome impressiveness, its sheer, intractable bitterness cannot but affect the reader as Huxley chants his litanies over modern civilization.