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Ape and Essence Author: Aldous Huxley

ISBN: 9780099477785 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 153 Published: 7 April 2005 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 19.7 x 13.1 x 1.1 Description: 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. They find that the current inhabitants of Los Angeles belong to a sadistic, devil-worshipping society obsessed with the mutations arising among them due to the radiation poisoning they have suffered.

Ape and Essence is Huxley's vision of the ruin of humanity, and he treats it with all his moral indignation, his knowledge and his imaginative genius.

About the Author

Aldous Huxley was born on 26th July 1894 near Godalming, Surrey. He began writing poetry and short stories in his early twenties, but it was his first novel, Crome Yellow(1921), which established his literary reputation. This was swiftly followed by Antic Hay(1923), Those Barren Leaves (1925) and Point C...

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