ISLAND - A NOVEL
"Huxley's final word about the human condition and the possibility of the good society. . . . Island is a welcome and in many ways unique addition to the select company of books-from Plato to now-that have presented, in imaginary terms, a coherent view of what society is not but might be." - New York Times Book Review
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.
In the novel Huxley considered his most important, he transports us to the remote Pacific island of Pala, where an ideal society has flourished for 120 years. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala, and events are set in motion 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.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
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.
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HUXLEY ALDOUS
Escribió más de un centenar de libros de los géneros más diversos, entre los que destacan Un mundo feliz, La isla y Las puertas de la percepción. Murió de cáncer en su residencia de Los Ángeles en 1963, bajo los efectos del LSD que había solicitado su esposa mientras esta le recitaba al oído textos sagrados.
