Author

Publication

2009-10-20 - Harper Perennial Modern Classics

Word Count

96,000 words, Guess

Page Count

384 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • Internet Archiveisland00huxl_782
  • ISBN-100061561797
  • ISBN-139780061561795
  • OCLC Control Number310399102
  • Better World Books9780061561795
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Description

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.

First Sentence

"ATTENTION," A VOICE BEGAN TO CALL, AND IT WAS AS THOUGH an oboe had suddenly become articulate.

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  • Island (P.S.)PaperbackHarper Perennial Modern Classics2009-10-20

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