Island

Zusatztext One of the 99 Best Modern Novels Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung “Huxley’s final word about the human condition and the possibility of the good society. . . . Island is a welcome and in many ways unique addition to the select company of books—from Plato to now—that have presented, in imaginary terms, a coherent view of what society is not but might be.”  —  New York Times Book Review 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. In the novel Huxley considered his most important, he 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. ...

Product details

• Authors: Aldous Huxley, Huxley Aldous
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 20.10.2009
• EAN: 9780061561795
• ISBN: 978-0-06-156179-5
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 136 mm x 204 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics; Perennial Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy; Historical fiction, Second World War fiction, Narrative theme: Politics, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Fiction: general and literary, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction, PHILOSOPHY: LITERATURE, FICTION: Historical / World War II, FICTION: Classics, FICTION: Fantasy / Historical, FICTION: Dystopian, FICTION: Science Fiction / Humorous, HARPER PERENNIAL CLASSICS: FICTION, FICTION: Fantasy / Arthurian, Classic fiction: general and literary, Metaphysical / philosophical fiction, Harper Perennial Classics / Fiction, Philosophy / Literature