Eyeless in Gaza

<p><strong>One of <em>Brave New World</em> author Aldous Huxley's finest and most personal novels now back in print in a Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition <em>Eyeless in Gaza</em> 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.</strong></p><p><strong>A genius . . . a writer who spent his lifetime decrying the onward march of the Machine. -- <em>The New Yorker</em></strong></p><p>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. Anthony Beavis a cynical libertine Oxford graduate comes of age in the vacuum left by World War I. His life loves and foreign adventures leave him unfulfilled until he meets a charismatic doctor who inspires Anthony to become a Marxist and join the Mexican revolution--a disastrous embrace of violence that leaves the doctor with one leg. Shattered by the experience Anthony forges a new quasi-Buddhist philosophy that embraces pacifism. EYELESS IN GAZA remains one of Huxley's most enduring novels a testament to the challenges and rewards of bold vigorous thinking. </p>