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Author: Aldous Huxley
Publisher: New York : Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2009, ©1962.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : EnglishView 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: Utopian fiction
Fiction
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Aldous Huxley
ISBN: 9780061561795 0061561797
OCLC Number: 310399102
Notes: A hardcover edition of this book was published in 1962 by Harper & Row, Publishers.
Description: 354, 24 p. ; 21 cm.
Responsibility: Aldous Huxley.

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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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