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Island, a novel.

Author: Aldous Huxley
Publisher: New York, Harper [1962]
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : English : [1st ed.View all editions and formats
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For 120 years, an ideal society has flourished on a Pacific island where drug use and open sex are encouraged, and children are not at the mercy of one set of parents. 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  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Science fiction
Utopian fiction
Fiction
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Aldous Huxley
OCLC Number: 365034
Description: 335 p. 22 cm.

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For 120 years, an ideal society has flourished on a Pacific island where drug use and open sex are encouraged, and children are not at the mercy of one set of parents. 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 give him hope.

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