Island

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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 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.

 

Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
7
Section 3
9
Section 4
16
Section 5
27
Section 6
37
Section 7
73
Section 8
101
Section 11
193
Section 12
210
Section 13
229
Section 14
242
Section 15
282
Section 16
325
Section 17
Section 18

Section 9
129
Section 10
160

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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 Perennial Philosophy and The Doors of Perception. Born in Surrey, England, and educated at Oxford, he died in Los Angeles, California.