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Ape and Essence
- Author
- Aldous Huxley
- Narrator
- Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 7 October 2025
- Run Time
- 4 hours 31 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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- Author
- Aldous Huxley
- Narrator
- Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Duration
- 4 hours 31 minutes
- Release Date
- 7 October 2025
- ISBN
- 9798331904104
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Classic fiction, Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
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.
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