Eyeless in Gaza - Aldous Huxley
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In the great novel which followed Brave New World, Aldous Huxley pinned down the first third of the twentieth century, when the theories of Marx and Freud and Einstein were fermenting and bubbling in the minds of those who were free to think.
His narrative, with its broken time sequence, traces the development of Anthony Beavis from the death of fhis mother at the beginning of the century (when he is a despised 'swot' at school) to his deliberate assumption of unpopular and revolutionary views during the mounting crises of the thirties. The story involves a full gallery of characters typical of the time - sometimes satirically, often endearingly portrayed.
Taking its title from Milton's description of the blind Samson, Huxley's novel brilliantly, if indecisively, revolves the ideas of a conflicted period.
His narrative, with its broken time sequence, traces the development of Anthony Beavis from the death of fhis mother at the beginning of the century (when he is a despised 'swot' at school) to his deliberate assumption of unpopular and revolutionary views during the mounting crises of the thirties. The story involves a full gallery of characters typical of the time - sometimes satirically, often endearingly portrayed.
Taking its title from Milton's description of the blind Samson, Huxley's novel brilliantly, if indecisively, revolves the ideas of a conflicted period.
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