Eyeless in Gaza (The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley) - Hardcover

Huxley, Aldous

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0701108002 ISBN 13: 9780701108007

Publisher: Chatto & Windus, 1969

Synopsis

One of Brave New World author Aldous Huxley’s finest and most personal novels, now back in print in a Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition, Eyeless in Gaza is the story of one man’s quest to find a meaningful life, which leads him from blind hedonism to political revolution to spiritual enlightenment.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Written at the height of his powers immediately after Brave New World, Aldous Huxley's highly acclaimed Eyeless in Gaza is his most personal novel. Huxley's bold, nontraditional narrative tells the loosely autobiographical story of Anthony Beavis, a cynical libertine Oxford graduate who comes of age in the vacuum left by World War I. Unfulfilled by his life, loves, and adventures, Anthony is persuaded by a charismatic friend to become a Marxist and take up arms with Mexican revolutionaries. But when their disastrous embrace of violence nearly kills them, Anthony is left shattered—and is forced to find an alternative to the moral disillusionment of the modern world.

From the Inside Flap:

Eyeless in Gaza offers a counterpoint to the biting cynicism of Huxley's earlier satirical novels, and is considered by many to be his definitive work of fiction.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chatto & Windus
• Publication date: 1969
• ISBN 10: 0701108002
• ISBN 13: 9780701108007
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 628