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Island

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HarperCollins, Jan 5, 2010 - Fiction - 384 pages

In his final novel, which he considered his most important, Aldous Huxley 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.

  

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The writing is amazing, beautiful, brilliant. - Goodreads
Minor premise: man is totally depraved. - Goodreads
And I thought the ending was interesting. - Goodreads
The book is not much on plot. - Goodreads
The writing wasn't all that bad either. - Goodreads
I'd give it five it weren't for the ending. - Goodreads

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User Review  - Lori - Goodreads

I am something of a Huxley fan; I've read a fair amount of his fiction and found his sense of humor enjoyable, if odd. His perspective, which is most definitely his own, gives me a great deal of food ... Read full review

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User Review  - Daphne Kaamiño - Goodreads

In euphemism or in truth, Aldous Huxley's writing style has always appealed to me as an acquired taste. He has a touch for being lyrical and being brilliantly insightful but has the strange obsessive ... Read full review

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Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) is the author of the classic novels Brave New World, Island, Eyeless in Gaza, and The Genius and the Goddess, as well as such critically acclaimed nonfiction works as The Devils of Loudun, The Doors of Perception, and The Perennial Philosophy. Born in Surrey, England, and educated at Oxford,he died in Los Angeles, California.

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