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Ape and Essence
Ape and Essence
Author: Aldous Huxley
When Aldous Huxley's Brave New World first appeared in 1932, it presented in terms of purest fantasy a society bent on self-destruction. Few of its outraged critics anticipated the onset of another world war with its Holocaust and atomic ruin. In 1948, seeing that the probable shape of his anti-utopia had been altered inevitably by the facts of ...  more »
ISBN: 505192
Publication Date: 8/1964
Pages: 152
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Publisher: Bantam
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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