@booklet {1299, title = {Ape and Essence}, year = {1948}, note = {

Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1958; and London: Flamingo, 1994.

}, month = {1948}, publisher = {Harper}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Post-atomic war dystopia. Barbarianism. Eugenic rules are in place due to mutations, and babies outside certain parameters are killed. Love is not allowed, and there are sexual orgies at specified times. Worship of the Devil. It was adapted for TV by John Finch and directed by David Benedictus, it aired as an episode of the Wednesday Play on BBC on May 18, 1966. Huxley wrote a dramatization that remain unpublished until 2019 when it appeared in the Aldous Huxley Annual: A Journal of Twentieth-Century Thought and Beyond, no. 19 (2019): 19-91, accompanied by James Sexton and Bernfried Nugel, \“Aldous Huxley\’s Unpublished Dramatization of Ape and Essence (1-12); their \“Note on the Text\” (13), and some pages of the manuscript (14-17).

}, keywords = {English author, Male author, US author}, author = {Aldous [Leonard] Huxley (1894-1963)} }