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In his final novel, which he considered his most important, Aldous Huxley 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 (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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Book Description Condition: Bueno. : Will Farnaby is travelling in the Far East as a journalist and business contact for an oil and newspaper magnate. A sudden squall shipwrecks him on Pala, the fabled island no reporter has ever visited. Here he discovers a kind and happy people who enjoy equality without the stifling of initiative. EAN: 9780586044391 Tipo: Libros Título: Island Autor: Aldous Huxley Editorial: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, London Formato: Libro de bolsillo Información adicional: (flamingo Modern Classics). Seller Inventory # Happ-2024-04-22-ab04dd18
Book Description (1st ed. Chatto & Windus, 1962). Buchrücken knickspurig, Einbandkanten bestossen, lichtrandig, 336 S., kart. Ein utopischer Entwurf, in dem - rund 30 Jahre nach seinem pessimistischen Buch "Schöne Neue Welt" - eine Gemeinschaft beschrieben wird, die die Prinzipien des Guten und der Freiheit konsequent anwendet, im Gegensatz zum dystopischen Vorläufer hier also ein positiver utopischer Entwurf mit libertären Zügen. Das Buch wäre kein Huxley, wenn nicht auch Drogenerfahrungen wieder eine wichtige Rolle spielen würden: Mokscha wird ein Halluzinogen der fiktiven Insel Pala genannt, dass die "Pforten der Wahrnehmung" erweitern und die Wirklichkeit intensiver ergründlich machen soll. Das Buch wurde als Science Fiction rezipiert, sehr zum Unbehagen von Aldous Huxley und seiner Frau Laura, die das Buch als Wirklichkeitsbeschreibung ansahen. "We cannot deny its brilliance, its learning, its honest attempt to answer the big human question" (ANthony Burgess). Gramm 600. Seller Inventory # 86977