We are delighted to announce that for September’s prose lecture afternoon, Michael King will be exploring Aldous Huxley’s strange, dystopian classic novella, Ape and Essence.

Tea and coffee with be provide throughout the event.

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About the book:

Huxley's dystopian classic is a nightmare vision of the fate of humanity in a post-nuclear world. After a devastating global catastrophe, a group of scientists arrives in a ruined future shaped by fear, ritual and violence. Humanity has survived – but at a terrible cost, and not in any form they recognise.

Ape and Essence is Aldous Huxley’s bleak, satirical vision of civilisation after collapse. Fierce, strange and provocative, it confronts the destructive impulses that persist even after the world has ended.