num_pages: 354
description: In Island, his last novel, Huxley transports us to a Pacific island where, for 120 years, an ideal society has flourished. 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—to his amazement—give him hope.
language: English
title: Island
titlecomplete: Island
characters: Will Farnaby
genres: Philosophy, Dystopia, Novels, Science Fiction, Literature, Utopia, Fantasy, Classics, British Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 30696
places: Pala Island (Fictive), Indian Ocean
publisher: Harper Perennial Classics