Eyeless in GazaAuthor :
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Published : Tuesday 20 October 2009
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One of Brave New World author Aldous Huxleys finest and most personal novels, now back in print in a Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition, Eyeless in Gaza is the story of one mans quest to find a meaningful life, which leads him from blind hedonism to political revolution to spiritual enlightenment.
A genius . . . a writer who spent his lifetime decrying the onward march of the Machine. The New Yorker
First published in 1936--and hailed as his best work--EYELESS IN GAZA is Aldous Huxley's loosely autobiographical novel of one mans search for an alternative to the moral disillusionment of the modern world. Anthony Beavis, a cynical libertine Oxford graduate, comes of age in the vacuum left by World War I. His life, loves, and foreign adventures leave him unfulfilled, until he meets a charismatic doctor who inspires Anthony to become a Marxist and join the Mexican revolutiona disastrous embrace of violence that leaves the doctor with one leg. Shattered by the experience, Anthony forges a new, quasi-Buddhist philosophy that embraces pacifism. EYELESS IN GAZA remains one of Huxleys most enduring novels, a testament to the challenges and rewards of bold, vigorous thinking.
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