Eyeless in Gaza (Modern Classics) - Softcover

Huxley, Aldous

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140010505 ISBN 13: 9780140010503

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1974

Synopsis

Literature - 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 Anthony Beavis and his longtime married lover, Helen. His intense prep-school friendships continue at Oxford; most important are his relationships with Brian Foxe, who later commits suicide; with Hugh Ledwidge, who marries Helen; and with Mark Staithes, who becomes a Marxist and with whom Beavis goes to Mexico to fight in a revolution. While in Mexico, Beavis adopts a Buddhist-centered philosophy, practices meditation, and becomes a pacifist.

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Review:

"A crystal clear and a deeply moving book... Unerringly, Huxley explores the layers of memory, affection and the decline of sexual attraction, asking the unanswerable question of what you do with love after it dies.... his deepest, funniest, most marvellous of novels" (Observer)

"Sardonically humorous, urbane and exquisite in style" (Scotsman)

"The play of ideas and theories, moral, psychological and sociological, is profuse and scintillating" (Times Literary Supplement)

"Eyeless in Gaza embodies Huxley's conclusions about life. Amusing, moving and brilliant, there is no doubting the sincerity and the beauty of this book" (Listener)

"Brilliant intellectual fireworks" (The Times)

Book Description:

Huxley's 'pacifist novel', considered by many to be one of his finest, the story of a man in crisis after a disastrous affair and the death of his best friend.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0140010505
• ISBN 13: 9780140010503
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400