Eyeless in Gaza
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First editionFirst publication
1936
Literature form
Novel
Genre
Literary
Writing language
English
Author's country
England
Length
Approx. 143,000 words
Notable lines
The snapshot had become almost as dim as memories. This young woman who had stood in a garden at the turn of the century was like a ghost at a cockcrow. His mother, Anthony Beavis recognized.
— First lines
The thing that had made life worth living all these months was precisely the pain of his bereavement.
Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional.... That's why the inhabitants of imaginative literature have always been recruited from the pages of Who's Who.
"[Football is] the greatest English contribution to civilization.... Much more important than Parliamentary government, or steam engines, or Newton's Principia. More important really than English poetry. Poetry can never be a substitute for war and murder. Whereas games can be."
— Last lines
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