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Eyeless in gaza by aldous huxley the greatest books. 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. 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. The novel centres around anthony beavis and his group of friends spanning their lives from childhood to middle age during the first decades of the 20th century. It is the story of anthony beavis, a cynical oxford graduate coming of age in the wake of world war i. He authored nearly fifty booksboth novels and nonfiction worksas well as wideranging essays, narratives, and poems. Huxley has now moved completely away from his essentially linear satires and created here a complex novel of ideas. The title comes from john miltons drama samson agonists, which retells the biblical story of samson, the israelite.
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