Island
 | Perennial ClassicsHarper Perennial Modern Classics, 2002, Paperback Customer Rating: 65 reviews Recommend |
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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.
Title: Island (Perennial Classics)
Sales Rank: 10155 in Books
Author: Aldous Huxley
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2002-08-01, Paperback, 368 pages, ISBN: 0060085495
Package Dimensions: 7.96 x 5.34 x 0.94 inches, 0.61 pounds
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