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Island is a 1962 utopian manifesto and novel by English writer Aldous Huxley, the author's final work before his death in 1963. Although it has a plot, the plot largely serves to further conceptual explorations rather than setting up and resolving conventional narrative tension.
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Island is a 1962 novel by Aldous Huxley. It tells the story of Will Farnaby’s experience on an isolated island called Pala. The novel is written in third person limited omniscient point of view focused on Will’s perspective.
Aldous Huxley. 3.85. 32,775 ratings2,322 reviews. 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.
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Island ( 1962 ) by Aldous Huxley. Huxley's utopia and final novel, set in the fictional Buddhist Island of Pala. Pala offers psychedelic. drugs ("moksha medicine") and tantric sex; but otherwise isn't much fun.
by Aldous Huxley. Recommendations from our site. “His final novel, Island, is a kind of blueprint for a society wherein the ecstatic is balanced with the Socratic.
Jan 5, 2010 · 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...
Jul 30, 2002 · Island. Aldous Huxley. Harper Collins, Jul 30, 2002 - Fiction - 354 pages. In Island, his last novel, Huxley transports us to a Pacific island where, for 120 years, an ideal society has...
