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Collected Short Stories

Aldous Huxley

出版	I.R. Dee, 1992
主題	Fiction / GeneralFiction / LiteraryFiction / Short Stories (single author)Literary Collections / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
ISBN	09295878129780929587813
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=2rNaAAAAYAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

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.