Island / Aldous Huxley.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780060085490
- ISBN: 0060085495
- Physical Description: 354 p. ; 21 cm.
- Edition: 1st Perennial classics ed.
- Publisher: New York : Perennial, 2002.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Originally published: Harper & Row, 1962. |
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Subject: | Shipwreck survival > Fiction. Journalists > Fiction. Islands > Fiction. Oceania > Fiction. |
Genre: | Science fiction. Utopian fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Prince Rupert Library.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Prince Rupert Library | CPb Huxl (Text) | 33294001684612 | Paperbacks - Classics | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
The author's last novel introduces a supposedly utopian Pacific island where drug use and open sex are encouraged, and children are not at the mercy of one set of parents. - Baker & Taylor
The author's last novel introduces a supposedly Utopian Pacific island where drug use and open sex are encouraged, and children are not at the mercy of one set of parents. 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.A shipwrecked journalist discovers the beauty and serentity promoted by science on the island of Pala. - HARPERCOLL
“Huxley’s final word about the human condition and the possibility of the good society. . . . Island is a welcome and in many ways unique addition to the select company of books—from Plato to now—that have presented, in imaginary terms, a coherent view of what society is not but might be.” — New York Times Book Review
The final novel from Aldous Huxley, Island is a provocative counterpoint to his worldwide classic Brave New World, in which a flourishing, ideal society located on a remote Pacific island attracts the envy of the outside world.
In the novel Huxley considered his most important, he transports us to the remote Pacific island of Pala, where an ideal society has flourished for 120 years. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala, and events are set in motion 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.