- Fiction, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, Journalists, Utopias
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.
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Grave, contemplative, contemporary and cool.
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Aldous Huxley
- First published
- 1962
- Pages
- 295
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers, Bantam, Clarke, Irwin
- Editions
- 33
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9783492103589
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“'Attention,' a voice began to call, and it was a though oboe had suddenly become articulate.”
Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly 50 books, both novels and non-fiction works, as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems.
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