One of Brave New World author Aldous Huxleyβs finest and most personal novels, Eyeless in Gaza is the story of one manβs quest to find a meaningful life, which leads him from blind hedonism to political revolution to spiritual enlightenment.
Eyeless In Gaza
β Scribed by Huxley, Aldous
- Book ID
- 109065912
- Publisher
- Random House
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 325 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID BRADSHAW
Anthony Beavis is a man inclined to recoil from life. His past is haunted by the death of his best friend Brian and by his entanglement with the cynical and manipulative Mary Amberley. Realising that his determined detachment from the world has been motivated not by intellectual honesty but by moral cowardice, Anthony attempts to find a new way to live. Eyeless in Gaza is considered by many to be Huxley's definitive work of fiction.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
### Novel of ideas by Aldous Huxley, published in 1936. This semiautobiographical novel criticized the dearth of spiritual values in contemporary society. In nonchronological fashion, the novel covers more than 30 years in the lives of a group of upper-middle-class English friends, especially Anthon