by Aldous Huxley · Vintage Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099477778
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«Island» is Aldous Huxley's utopian novel, published by Vintage Classics in paperback (304 pages, in English).
Pala, a Pacific island, has for over a century been home to a civilization that fuses Western science with Eastern philosophy and humanism as an experiment in earthly paradise. Journalist Will Farnaby, sent to investigate possible oil deposits, must decide between fulfilling his mission or preserving that way of life.
It is Aldous Huxley's last novel, originally published in 1962, and his utopian counterpart to «Brave New World». This edition includes a biographical introduction by David Bradshaw.
For readers of utopian and dystopian fiction, philosophy, and the work of Aldous Huxley, especially those who have read «Brave New World».
Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives and poems.
