Island (1962) - Aldous Huxley
Category: Classic
Narrator: Simon Vance
Tags: Classic, Adults, Literature
Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc. Release date: September 13, 2016 Duration: 11:27:45, 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 doesnt expect is how his time with the people of Pala will revolutionize all his values andto his amazementgive him hope., For listeners who revel in social critique and utopian philosophy, Aldous Huxleys 1962 work will come alive, especially with Simon Vances energetic narration. Vance layers the narration with voices for a catalogue of charactersfrom precocious children to raspy elders, from East Indian students to robotic myna birdsall teaching a Westerner about the ide
