The Isle of Pines is a book by Henry Neville published in 1668. An
example of Utopian fiction, the book presents its story through an
Epistolary frame: a "Letter to a friend in London, declaring the
truth of his Voyage to the East Indies" written by a fictional
Dutchman "Henry Cornelius Van Sloetten," concerning the discovery
of an island in the southern hemisphere, populated with the
descendants of a small group of castaways. The book also has
political overtones. Neville was an anti-Stuart republican, and as
a political exile he was clearly conscious of the socio-political
concerns of the end of the early modern period. The island
narrative is framed by the story of the Dutch explorers who are
more organized and better equipped than the English voyage of three
generations earlier, and who are needed to rescue a small English
colonial nation-state from chaos. It is interesting to note that
the book was written at the end of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
Henry Neville (1620-1694) was an English author and satirist, best
remembered for his tale of shipwreck and dystopia, The Isle of
Pines.
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