Crome Yellow, Aldous Huxley
Crome Yellow, Aldous Huxley
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Crome Yellow
An Aldous Huxley Classic

Author: Aldous Huxley

Narrator: Cyril Taylor-Carr, The Cliff

Unabridged: 6 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/10/2022

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

Crome Yellow, first novel by Aldous Huxley, published in 1921. The book is a social satire of the British literati in the period following World War I. The book revolves around the hapless love affair of Denis Stone, a sensitive poet, and Anne Wimbush. Anne’s uncle, Henry Wimbush, hosts a party at his country estate, Crome, that brings together a humorous coterie of characters. Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly 50 books—both novels and non-fiction works—as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems. Born into the prominent Huxley family, he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with an undergraduate degree in English literature

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

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