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Ape and Essence
Ape and Essence
Author: Aldous Huxley
APE AND ESSENCE is Aldous Huxley's savagely satirical novel of a society which tries to legislate desire. It is his horrific view of the world in the twenty-second century, after the Third World War, when a civilization dedicated to "perfection" defers to the fool-proof machine. Human desire, the enemy of Reason and Order, is held in check. In A...  more »
ISBN: 371595
Publication Date: 8/1962
Pages: 152
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Publisher: Bantam Books
Book Type: Paperback
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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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