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.
Island
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Paperback, 384 pages
Published Oct. 20, 2009 by Harper Perennial Modern Classics.
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- Literature & Fiction -- Classics
- Literature & Fiction -- Literary
- Science Fiction & Fantasy -- Science Fiction