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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.
- Aldous Huxley
- 384 pp (Paperback edition)
- 1962
- 1962
Island. Aldous Huxley. 3.86. 32,058 ratings2,242 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 is Huxley's last and most optimistic novel, set in a fictional Buddhist island of Pala. The novel explores the Palanese culture, which combines western science and eastern philosophy, and the journey of a shipwrecked journalist who stays on the island.
Oct 20, 2009 · 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.
- Aldous Huxley
- $14.69
- Harper Perennial
Island. the worlds already realized within the various cultures and, beyond them, the worlds of still unrealized potentialities. It was an enormous ambition, an. ambition totally impossible of fulfillment; but at least it had the merit of. spurring them on, of making them rush in where angels feared to tread—.
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...
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Jul 15, 2009 · Island. In his prescient vision of the 21st century, Huxley explores Buddhist ideology, nuclear threat and ‘big oil’ corporate greed. For over a hundred years the Pacific island of Pala has...
