Island

£320.00

  • Bound in scarlet goatskin leather
  • Gilded, alum tawed leather onlays and gold embossing
  • Cushioned boards which have been bevelled before covering
  • Hand sewn silk endbands
  • Custom hand marbled endpapers by Payhembury Marbled Papers
  • Made to measure slipcase with original dust jacket 
  • Book size: 208mm x 140mm (8.12″ x 5.5″)

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Island is a 1962 utopian manifesto and novel by English writer Aldous Huxley, the author’s final work before his death in 1963. Although it has a plot, the plot largely serves to further conceptual explorations rather than setting up and resolving conventional narrative tension.[1]

It is the account of Will Farnaby, a cynical journalist who is shipwrecked on the fictional island of Pala. Island is Huxley’s utopian counterpart to his most famous work, the 1932 dystopian novel Brave New World.

 

Source: Wikipedia

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