Crome Yellow (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781564783042)

On vacation from school, Denis goes to stay at Crome, an English country house inhabitated by several of Huxley's most outlandish characters--from Mr. Barbecue-Smith, who writes 1,500 publishable words an hour by "getting in touch" with his "subconscious," to Henry Wimbush, who is obsessed with writing the definitive HISTORY OF CROME. Denis's stay proves to be a disaster amid his weak attempts to attract the girl of his dreams and the ridicule he endures regarding his plan to write a novel about love and art. Lambasting the post-Victorian standards of morality, CROME YELLOW is a witty masterpiece that, in F. Scott Fitzgerald's words, "is too irnonic to be called satire and too scornful to be called irony."

Author: Aldous Huxley
ISBN-10: 1564783049
ISBN-13: 9781564783042
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2001
Pages: 152
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.40w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 03/01/2002 pg. 146