Ape And Essence

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee
ISBN 13 : 146174136X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ape and Essence written by Aldous Huxley and published by Ivan R. Dee. This book was released on 1992-08-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 1443428566
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ape And Essence written by Aldous Huxley and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 about¬—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.

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 140907966X
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ape and Essence written by Aldous Huxley and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-04-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dystopian classic 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. Ape and Essence is Huxley's vision of the ruin of humanity, told with all his knowledge and imaginative genius.

Author : Noel Carroll
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521589703
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interpreting the Moving Image written by Noel Carroll and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-05-28 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of film essays by the well-respected critic, Noël Carroll.

Author : Ronald Zigler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317565762
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Educational Prophecies of Aldous Huxley written by Ronald Zigler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The visionary legacy of Aldous Huxley is as relevant today as ever. Huxley possessed a sober understanding of the human condition as well as an inspired vision of the human potential. This volume presents an interdisciplinary examination and appreciation of Aldous Huxley’s three visionary novels – Brave New World (1932), Ape and Essence (1948), and Island (1962) – to reveal the extent to which Huxley’s prognoses into our possible futures was prophetic. The author assesses each novel to reveal the foresights that define our current educational, social, religious, political, and economic institutions, while also exposing our conflicts within those institutions. This volume examines the educational, cultural and technological changes that have shaped our society since Huxley’s work, with special reference to the enduring legacy of educational philosopher John Dewey. It offers profound insights into the educational forces and moral foundations of our society that shape us, both inside and outside of our schools. It is the first of its kind to focus exclusively on all three of Huxley’s visionary novels and detail their relevance to our world today.

Author : Neil Barron
Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1026 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anatomy of Wonder written by Neil Barron and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 2004-12-30 with total page 1026 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic work is an essential tool for collection development, research, reference, and readers' advisory work."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Along the Road written by Aldous Huxley and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN 13 : 9781564781802
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Time Must Have a Stop written by Aldous Huxley and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is Mr. Huxley's best novel for a very long time . . . admirably constructed . . . bright and sun-pierced." New Statesman and Nation

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ape and Essence written by Aldous Huxley and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Steve Stewart-Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108776035
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ape that Understood the Universe written by Steve Stewart-Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ape that Understood the Universe is the story of the strangest animal in the world: the human animal. It opens with a question: How would an alien scientist view our species? What would it make of our sex differences, our sexual behavior, our altruistic tendencies, and our culture? The book tackles these issues by drawing on two major schools of thought: evolutionary psychology and cultural evolutionary theory. The guiding assumption is that humans are animals, and that like all animals, we evolved to pass on our genes. At some point, however, we also evolved the capacity for culture - and from that moment, culture began evolving in its own right. This transformed us from a mere ape into an ape capable of reshaping the planet, travelling to other worlds, and understanding the vast universe of which we're but a tiny, fleeting fragment. Featuring a new foreword by Michael Shermer.