Ape and Essence

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Huxley’s dystopian classic is a nightmare vision of the fate of humanity in a post-nuclear world. In February 2108, the New Zealand Rediscovery Expedition reaches California at last. It is over a century since the world was devastated by nuclear war, but the blight of radioactivity and disease still gnaws away at the survivors. The expedition expects to find physical destruction but they are quite unprepared for the moral degradation they meet. Ape and Essence is Huxley’s vision of the ruin of humanity, told with all his knowledge and imaginative genius.

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Huxley’s dystopian classic is a nightmare vision of the fate of humanity in a post-nuclear world.

After a devastating global catastrophe, a group of scientists arrives in a ruined future shaped by fear, ritual and violence. Humanity has survived – but at a terrible cost, and not in any form they recognise. Ape and Essence is Aldous Huxley’s bleak, satirical vision of civilisation after collapse. Fierce, strange and provocative, it confronts the destructive impulses that persist even after the world has ended.

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Weight 0.146 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 × 1.3 cm
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Paperback

Pages

176

Language

English

Edition

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Dewey

823.912 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K