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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 1936and hailed as his best workEYELESS IN GAZA is Aldous Huxleys 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.

Author: Aldous Huxley
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 10/20/2009
Series: P.S.
Pages: 512
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.30w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780061724893
Language: English