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Eyeless in Gaza is a novel by Aldous Huxley, first published in 1936. It is an account of the life of a socialite named Anthony Beavis between the 1890s and 1936.
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 ...
Eyeless in Gaza, novel of ideas by Aldous Huxley, published in 1936. This semiautobiographical novel criticizes the dearth of spiritual values in contemporary society.
First published in 1936--and hailed as his best work--EYELESS IN GAZA is Aldous Huxley's loosely autobiographical novel of one man’s search for an alternative to the moral disillusionment of the modern world.
In “Eyeless in Gaza,” Aldous Huxley portrays women as complex and multifaceted characters who challenge traditional gender roles. The novel features several female characters who are strong-willed, independent, and unafraid to challenge societal norms.
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.
Amongst the non-canonical novels of the 20th Century, "Eyeless in Gaza" is one of the very finest. Huxley's bold manipulation of chronology-- the backwards-and-forwards movement through the early decades of the century-- gives the book a symphonic undertow; it seems all at once breathless and grandiose.
Told over more than thirty years, in non-chronological order, Eyeless in Gaza revolves around the lives of a small group of the English upper-middle classes, and is ultimately Aldous Huxley’s...
Eyeless in Gaza : a novel by Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963. Publication date 1955 Topics English fiction, English fiction Publisher Harmondsworth, Middlesex : Penguin Books Collection trent_university; internetarchivebooks; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English Item Size
Eyeless in Gaza revolves around the lives of a small group of the English upper middle classes, during a period of more than thirty years. The narrative falls into five distinct time periods:...