{"product_id":"9781461741374","title":"Collected Short Stories","description":"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.","brand":"Dee, Ivan R. Publisher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47141131223280,"sku":"9781461741374","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781461741374_p0.jpg?v=1769890319","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781461741374","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}