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Eyeless in Gaza
Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author	Aldous Huxley
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre(s)	novel
Publisher	Chatto & Windus
Publication date	1936
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	619 pp
ISBN	NA

For the band, see Eyeless in Gaza (band).

Eyeless in Gaza is a novel by Aldous Huxley, first published in 1936. The title originates from a phrase in John Milton's Samson Agonistes:

... Promise was that I

Should Israel from Philistian yoke deliver;

Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him

Eyeless in Gaza at the Mill with slaves ...

The title of the book, like Milton's poem, recalls the biblical story of Samson, who was captured by the Philistines, his eyes burned out, and taken to Gaza, where he was forced to work grinding grain in a mill.

The chapters of the book are not ordered chronologically. Aldous Huxley biographer Sybille Bedford claims in her fictive memoir Jigsaw that the novel's characters Mary Amberley, a drug addict, and her daughter, were partly inspired by her own experiences with her morphine-addicted mother and herself, known to Huxley because they were neighbors in the south of France.

cover from the first edition

Adaptions

Together with Robin Chapman Huxley wrote the script for the BBC Mini-series of five episodes aired in 1971. ^[1]

References

^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0346956/combined

Bleiler, Everett (1948). The Checklist of Fantastic Literature. Chicago: Shasta Publishers. p. 156.
Bedford, Sybille, Aldous Huxley: A biography - 1973 - the standard, authorized biography of Huxley

Works by Aldous Huxley

Novel	Crome Yellow (1921) • Antic Hay (1923) • Those Barren Leaves (1925) • Point Counter Point (1928) • Brave New World (1932) • Eyeless in Gaza (1936) • After Many a Summer (1939) • Time Must Have a Stop (1944) • Ape and Essence (1948) • The Genius and the Goddess (1955) • Island (1962)

Short story	"Happily Ever After" • "Eupompus Gave Splendour to Art by Numbers" • "Cynthia" • "The Bookshop" • "The Death of Lully" • "Sir Hercules" • "The Gioconda Smile" • "The Tillotson Banquet" • "Green Tunnels" • "Nuns at Luncheon" • "Little Mexican" • "Hubert and Minnie" • "Fard" • "The Portrait" • "Young Archimedes" • "Half Holiday" • "The Monocle" • "Fairy Godmother" • "Chawdron" • "The Rest Cure" • "The Claxtons" • "After the Fireworks" • "Jacob's Hands: A Fable" (published 1997) co-written with Christopher Isherwood

Short story collection	Limbo (1920) • Mortal Coils (1922) • Little Mexican (US title: Young Archimedes) (1924) • Two or Three Graces (1926) • Brief Candles (1930) • Collected Short Stories (1957)

Poetry	The Burning Wheel (1916) • Jonah (1917) • The Defeat of Youth (1918) • Leda (1920) • Arabia Infelix (1929) • The Cicadias and Other Poems (1931) • Collected Poetry (1971)

Travel writing	Along the Road (1925) • Jesting Pilate (1926) • Beyond the Mexique Bay (1934)

Essay collection	On the Margin (1923) • Essays New and Old (1926) • Proper Studies (1927) • Do What You Will (1929) • Vulgarity in Literature (1930) • Music at Night (1931) • Texts and Pretexts (1932) • The Olive Tree (1936) • Ends and Means (1937) • Words and their Meanings (1940) • Science, Liberty and Peace (1946) • Themes and Variations (1950) • The Doors of Perception (1954) • Adonis and the Alphabet (US title: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow) (1956) • Heaven and Hell (1956) • Collected Essays (1958) • Brave New World Revisited (1958) • Literature and Science (1963) • The Human Situation: 1959 Lectures at Santa Barbara (1977) • Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience (1999)

Screenplay	Pride and Prejudice (1940) • Madame Curie (uncredited, 1943) • Jane Eyre (1944) • A Woman's Vengeance (1947) • Prelude to Fame (1950) • Alice in Wonderland (uncredited, 1951)

Biography	Grey Eminence (1941) • The Devils of Loudun (1952)

Play	The Discovery (based on Frances Sheridan) (1924) • The World of Light (1931) • The Gioconda Smile (play version, also known as Mortal Coils) (1948) • The Genius and the Goddess (play version, with Betty Wendel) (1957) • The Ambassador of Captripedia (1965) • Now More Than Ever (1997)

Children's book	The Crows of Pearblossom (1944, published 1967) • The Travails and Tribulations of Geoffrey Peacock (1967)

Other book	The Art of Seeing (1942) • The Perennial Philosophy (1945) • Selected Letters (2007)

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