Crome Yellow, Aldous Huxley
Crome Yellow, Aldous Huxley
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Crome Yellow

Author: Aldous Huxley

Narrator: James Langton

Unabridged: 6 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 07/03/2015

Categories: Fiction, Classic


Synopsis

A satirical account of English society in the early 20th century, Crome Yellow is Aldous Huxley's first novel. Henry Wimbush is the owner of Crome, a stately manor house, and the host of a large party. His guests take advantage of his hospitality, pursuing their own romantic, political, and social agendas. Denis Stone, the hero of the tale, attempts to record the events of the party in poetry even as his own romantic plans go awry. A send-up of the traditional English country house novel, Crome Yellow contains thematic hints of Huxley's masterpiece to come, Brave New World.

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