Crome Yellow

Name: Crome Yellow
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Aldous Huxley
ISBN: 9781441797254

Author: Aldous Huxley

Narrator: Simon Vance

Unabridged: 5 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 01/01/2007

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

One of the greatest prose writers and social commentators of the 20th century, Aldous Huxley here introduces us to a delightfully cynical, comic and severe group of artists and intellectuals engaged in the most freethinking and modern kind of talk imaginable. Poetry, occultism, ancestral history, and Italian primitive painting are just a few of the subjects competing for discussion among the amiable cast of eccentrics drawn together at Crome, an intensely English country manor.

About Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) is the author of the classic novels Brave New World, Eyeless in Gaza, and The Genius and the Goddess, as well as such critically acclaimed nonfiction works as The Devils of Loudun, The Perennial Philosophy, and The Doors of Perception. Born in Surrey, England, and educated at Oxford, he died in Los Angeles, California.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Vit on February 26, 2023

To Aldous Huxley with his immense talent of perception in order to paint a canvas of epoch was enough to draw a picture of a single party. Crome Yellow is a chronicle of a party – it seems nothing happens but actually there is a battle of different intellectual conceits. The novel is a paragon of eru......more

Goodreads review by Paul on December 23, 2023

In the middle of this delightful ultra-English country house satire written in 1921, I got a jolt. One of the pompous old geezers is lecturing our limp-as-a-lettuce-leaf young Denis the would-be poet about what the world is really like (they do this quite a lot) : People are quite ready to listen to......more

Goodreads review by Bram on May 15, 2023

Not my favourite book by the hand of Huxley. It didn't really grab me as his novels normally do.......more

Goodreads review by Jonfaith on July 17, 2016

Words - I wonder if you can realize how much I love them. You are too much preoccupied with mere things and ideas and people to understand the full beauty of words. Your mind is not a literary mind. Goodreads is but a sea of possibilities, rife with points of contact albeit drifting and bobbing. Too......more

Goodreads review by Matthew Ted on November 10, 2020

6th book of 2020. I read Brave New World a few years ago and have been meaning to read his earlier works, his social satires which I heard are very different. That they are. Almost unrecognisable - these are humorous, well-written (as BNW is) and mundane books. By mundane I mean without any utopias o......more