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Island

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HarperCollins, Jul 30, 2002 - Fiction - 354 pages
The author's last novel introduces a supposedly Utopian Pacific island where drug use and open sex are encouraged, and children are not at the mercy of one set of parents. In Island, his last novel, Huxley transports us to a Pacific island where, for 120years, 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.
  

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The writing is amazing, beautiful, brilliant. - Goodreads
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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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This is one of my new all time favourite books - strangely, I'd never heard of it until very recently. Huxley's expansive literacy in every genre is demonstrated masterfully in this treatise on modern ... Read full review

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Section 1
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Section 2
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Section 3
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Section 4
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Section 5
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Section 6
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Section 7
45
Section 8
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Section 10
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Section 11
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Section 12
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Section 13
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Section 14
259
Section 15
303
Section 16
323
Section 17
357

Section 9
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About the author (2002)

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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