Island

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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.

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Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley was a writer who looked at the world through a lens both sharp and reflective, always questioning the assumptions of his time and exploring the human condition with profound insight. Born in 1894 in Godalming, Surrey, England, he came from a family steeped in intellectual traditions—his grandfather was a…

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