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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About The Author:

Aldous Huxley (born 1894) was an English writer who rose to fame with Crome Yellow (1921) and later wrote sharp social satires and influential novels like Brave New World (1932). He lived in Italy in the 1920s and moved to California in 1937 to work as a screenwriter.