{"product_id":"island-a-novel","title":"Island: A Novel","description":"335 pp. 8vo. Huxley's final novel, and an interesting foil for his earlier Brave New World, Island is a more optimistic take on many of same themes, leading to liberation rather than subjugation of the individual. An interesting quotation from Aristotle precedes the text, \"In framing an ideal we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities.\" Negley 605. Sargent 137. Gerber 160. In the novel Huxley considered his most important, he 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.","brand":"Harper \u0026 Brothers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40454809288774,"sku":"2330200","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1232\/9510\/products\/2330200.jpg?v=1672719668","url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/island-a-novel","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}