APE AND ESSENCE
by Huxley, Aldous
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- first
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- A fine copy in a very good to nearly fine dust jacket with moderate shelf wear along the upper and lower edges with two tiny clo
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1948. First edition. A fine copy in a very good to nearly fine dust jacket with moderate shelf wear along the upper and lower edges with two tiny closed tears. (29339). Octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-205 [206: blank] [207: colophon] [208-210: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], publisher's blue cloth, Harper's device stamped in light blue on front panel, spine panel stamped in light blue and gold, fore-edge untrimmed. "After a comprehensive atomic bomb catastrophe, man undergoes biological changes. Love is extinct, only collective seasonal sexual intercourse remains. The place of traditional religion has been taken by a hysterical worship of Belial, the god of evil." - Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), pp. 156-57. "... scalpel-like satirical account of twentieth-century humans' failure to understand their nature. Lesser writers would not handle this scenario and theme intelligently until the 1960's." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-97. "Bleak and timely." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, p. 17. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-557. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 235. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 78-83. Baird and Greenwood, An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 1664-1970 1274.
Synopsis
Ape and Essence is a novel by Aldous Huxley, published by Chatto & Windus in the UK and Harper & Brothers in the US. It is set in a dystopia, similar to that in Brave New World, Huxley's more famous work. It is largely a satire of the rise of large-scale warfare and warmongering in the 20th century, and presents a pessimistic view of the politics of mutually assured destruction.
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- Bookseller
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29339
- Title
- APE AND ESSENCE
- Author
- Huxley, Aldous
- Book Condition
- Used - A fine copy in a very good to nearly fine dust jacket with moderate shelf wear along the upper and lower edges with two tiny clo
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- SF
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John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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