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Ape and essence : a novel

Similar in theme to his most well-known work Brave New World, Aldous Huxley's Ape and Essence is a work of dystopian fiction that looks to critique the rise of global warfare in the modern age. Told in two parts, the novel opens in 1948 with the discovery of a screenplay by two movie industry moguls, who then set out on a journey to find the work's author, William Tallis. The second half of the novel is dedicated to the screenplay itself, launching the reader into a futuristic Los Angeles that has been ravaged by the events of World War III. Vivid in its imagining of a world marked by barbarism and depravity, Ape and Essence offers a sharp critique of the brutal aftermath that war can bring aboutI'thus perfectly representing Huxley's now acclaimed satirical style. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

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  • "Temps futurs"
  • "Ape and Essence"@pl
  • "Ape and essence"@it
  • "Ape and essence"

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  • "Na een autoramp ontdekt een groep biologen een gemeenschap van veelal mis- vormden, die ten koste van alles in leven proberen te blijven."
  • "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 history, Huxley wrote Ape and Essence. In this savage novel, using the form of a film scenario, he transports us to the year 2108. The setting is Los Angeles where a "rediscovery expedition" from New Zealand is trying to make sense of what is left. From chief botanist Alfred Poole we learn, to our dismay, about the twenty-second-century way of life. "It was inevitable that Mr. Huxley should have written this book: one could almost have seen it since Hiroshima is the necessary sequel to Brave New World."?Alfred Kazin. "The book has a certain awesome impressiveness; its sheer intractable bitterness cannot but affect the reader."?Time."
  • "In the year 2108, a rediscovery expedition from New Zealand arrives in a post-nuclear Los Angeles and tries to make sense of what is left of the survivors. Huxley wrote this in 1948 as a response to the use of atomic weapons in WWII and the emerging Cold War."
  • "Life in Los Angeles a century after the Third World War, when atomic and bacterial warfare have left the area in ruins."
  • "Similar in theme to his most well-known work Brave New World, Aldous Huxley's Ape and Essence is a work of dystopian fiction that looks to critique the rise of global warfare in the modern age. Told in two parts, the novel opens in 1948 with the discovery of a screenplay by two movie industry moguls, who then set out on a journey to find the work's author, William Tallis. The second half of the novel is dedicated to the screenplay itself, launching the reader into a futuristic Los Angeles that has been ravaged by the events of World War III. Vivid in its imagining of a world marked by barbarism and depravity, Ape and Essence offers a sharp critique of the brutal aftermath that war can bring aboutI'thus perfectly representing Huxley's now acclaimed satirical style. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library."@en
  • "A satire of the rise of large-scale warfare and warmongering in the 20th century. Features a dystopia similar to that of Brave new world."
  • "In Los Angeles in the year 2108, a rediscovery expedition from New Zealand is trying to make sense of what is left after the planet is almost completely destroyed by a nuclear holocaust."
  • "In Los Angeles in the year 2108, a rediscovery expedition from New Zealand is trying to make sense of what is left after the planet is almost completely destroyed by a nuclear holocaust."@en

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  • "Science fiction"
  • "Science fiction"@en
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Vertalingen (vorm)"
  • "Powieść angielska"@pl
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Translations"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Dramat angielski"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"

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  • "Temps futurs"
  • "Ape and essence : a novel"
  • "Ape and essence : a novel"@en
  • "Affe und Wesen Roman ; [e. Roman aus d. Zeit nach d. Atomkrieg]"
  • "Affe und Wesen Roman"
  • "Małpa i Duch"@pl
  • "Ape and Essence A Novel"@en
  • "Dyret og sjælen"
  • "Dyret og sjælen"@da
  • "Maymun ve öz"
  • "Paśu aura mānava : Alḍuasa Haksale ke upanyāsa "epa eṇḍa eseṃsa kā Hindī rūpāntara"
  • "Būzīnah va z̲āt"
  • "Temps futura"
  • "Ape and essence: a novel"
  • "Majmun i bit"
  • "La scimmia e l'essenza"
  • "La scimmia e l'essenza"@it
  • "O Macaco e a essencia"@pt
  • "Ape and essence a novel"
  • "Ape and essence a novel"@en
  • "Ape and essence : [a novel]"@en
  • "Het rijk van Belial"
  • "Affe und Wesen : Roman"
  • "O macaco e a essência"@pt
  • "O macaco e a essência"
  • "Ape and essence. A novel"
  • "Ape and Essence"
  • "Dyret og sjælen : Omsl.: Steff Hartvig"@da
  • "بوزىنه و ذات"
  • "Apa och ande"@sv
  • "Apa och ande"
  • "Ape and essence : A novel"
  • "Małpa i duch"
  • "Affe und Wesen"
  • "Mono y esencia"@es
  • "Mono y esencia"
  • "Apen og sjelen"
  • "Ape and essence"@en
  • "Ape and essence"
  • "O macaco e a essência : romance"
  • "Ape and essence, a novel"@en
  • "[Ape and essence.] Affe und Wesen. Roman. (Übersetzung von Herberth E. Herlitschka.)"
  • "Affe und Wesen Blindendruck der Deutschen Blindenstudienanstalt"
  • "Temps futurs : roman"
  • "La scimmia e l'essenza : romanzo"
  • "Ho Pithēkos kai ē ousia"
  • "La scimmia e l'essenza : romanzo"@it

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