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Crome Yellow

Introduction by Michael Dirda

Collection Coleman Dowell Literature Series

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On vacation from school, Denis goes to stay at Crome, an English country house inhabited 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 ironic to be called satire and too scornful to be called irony."

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ISBN-10 1-56478-304-9
ISBN-13 9781564783042
Publication Date Sep 2001
Nb of pages 152
Dimensions 5.5 x 8 in.

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Press Reviews

Spectator
Not only is it intrinsically amusing and ingenious . . . the book is a completely accurate piece of observation.

Times Literary Supplement
Mr. Huxley's personages are drawn with an extreme verve of crispness; in fact, the merit of his comedy is that it becomes always more amusing as it grows.

Nation
What Mr. Huxley has . . . is a literary skill which only sound learning coupled with ripe talent could produce.

Bookman
Fine satirical writing. Crome Yellow is determinedly eccentric and unflaggingly delightful.

Literary Review
Every page is sparkling.

New York Sunday Tribune
Aldous Huxley deals (with a gay, satirical touch, truly) with the inevitable cruces of this, our mortal, life, with the sickening, blasting ironies of this vale of tears, with the beautiful poisonous
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