| Island Contributor(s): Huxley, Aldous (Author) |
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ISBN: 0061561797 ISBN-13: 9780061561795 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2009 Annotation: For over a hundred years, the inhabitants of the Pacific island of Pala have been part of a social experiment whereby western science has been brought together with eastern philosophy and humanism to create a paradise on earth. In Island, Huxley gives us his vision of Utopia. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Science Fiction - Humorous - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: P.S. |
| Physical Information: 0.93" H x 5.32" W x 8.08" (0.64 lbs) 384 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Huxley, Aldous: - 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. |