1949-1962 A Collection of Works by Aldous Huxley

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First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

Three volumes. First edition. Written by Aldous Leonard Huxley, an English writer and philosopher, who wrote many books including non-fiction works, essays, narratives, and poems. This set contains: Ape and Essence: A Novel, 1949. Set in a dystopia, this piece is largely a satire of the rise of large-scale warfare and warmongering in the twentieth century, and presents a pessimistic view of the politics of mutually assured destruction. Collected Short Stories, 1957. A Collection of twenty-one short stories, including: Happily Ever After, The Tilloston Banquet, and Hubert and Minnie. Island, 1962. A utopian manifesto and novel which, although it has a plot, largely serves to further conceptual explorations rather than setting up and resolving conventional narrative tension. It is the account of Will Farnaby, a cynical journalist who is shipwrecked on the fictional island of Pala.