619pp. Hardcover binding with dust jacket. Top edge stained red, bottom edge deckled. Condition: Jacket in good condition, with light rubbing and some edgewear, a few small open and closed tears, sunning to spine. Jacket has been covered with protective Brodart plastic sleeve after photos were taken. Book: Very good. Text is clean and clear. Well bound.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyeless_in_Gaza_(novel): Eyeless in Gaza is a novel by Aldous Huxley, first published in 1936. It is an account of the life of an English socialite named Anthony Beavis between the 1890s and 1935. Although Eyeless in Gaza is less well-known and has been adapted fewer times than Huxley's Brave New World, it was generally highly praised by contemporary critics. The English journalist Simon Heffer has called the novel Huxley's best book and his only "great novel". According to Heffer, the book both harkens back to Huxley's early satires and links to the more serious and philosophical concerns of his later novels. Formally, the novel uses a modernist stream of consciousness but based in fact, unlike the novels of Woolf, Proust and Joyce, whose narrators' memories are unreliable. Heffer writes that the novel explores the tension between wartime and pacifism in a particularly productive way, that Huxley is a "sophisticated, original English man of letters" who deserves a reevaluation, and that this novel is a good place to start. In Strictly English, Heffer's guide to writing clearly, he recommends Eyeless in Gaza as containing examples of what he considers to be Huxley's masterful use of parentheses (both brackets and dashes) and of the single dash.
Size: 8vo (21,3 x 15cm)
London: Chatto & Windus, 1936
- Jacket Condition: Good
- Binding Condition: Very Good
- Size: 8vo
