Crome Yellow [NOOK Book]

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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. ...
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Overview

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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Huxley launched his career as a novelist with this 1921 effort in which a student named Denys spends his holiday in an English country house located in the small town of Crome. Denys encounters many unusual residents, including a girl who quickly steals his heart. Not one of Huxley's major efforts, this is mostly for laughs. This edition includes a new introduction by Michael Dirda. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781613109847
  • Publisher: Library of Alexandria
  • Publication date: 5/22/2002
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Sales rank: 1,181,373
  • File size: 373 KB

Meet the Author

Aldous Huxley was an English writer and editor who is best known for his dystopian novel Brave New World and its utopian counterpart, Island, his satiric work Crome Yellow, and his essays on a wide range of topics. A humanist, Huxley was recognized during his life as a leading intellectual and researcher into visual communication. In addition to his literary work, Huxley was a credited Hollywood screenwriter for such films as Pride and Prejudice (1940) and Jane Eyre (1944). Huxley died on November 22, 1963, several hours after the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the death of fellow author C. S. Lewis.

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