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Island

by Aldous Huxley

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In Island, his last novel, Huxley transports us to a Pacific island where, for 120 years, an ideal society has flourished. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala, and events begin to move when an agent of the conspirators, a newspaperman named Faranby, is shipwrecked there. What Faranby doesn't expect is how his time with the people of Pala will revolutionize all his values and—to his amazement—give him hope.

...have presented, in imaginary terms, a coherent view of what society is not but might be.

New York Times Book Review

Categories:

British Literature Dystopia Fantasy Utopia Science Fiction Philosophy Literature Fiction Classics

Language:

English

Length:

354 pages

Author:

Aldous Huxley
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