Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley, Science Fiction, Classics, Literary - Hardcover

Huxley, Aldous

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1603129766 ISBN 13: 9781603129763

Publisher: Aegypan, 2007

Synopsis

In the book, Huxley satirises the fads and fashions of the time. The Crome of this novel's title is an English Country House in which most of the action occurs.

Aldous Huxley's first novel, Crome Yellow, was published in 1921, and, as a comedy of manners and ideas, its relatively realistic setting and format may come as a surprise to fans of his later works such as Point Counter Point and Brave New World. Some who know only Brave New World may not know that as a 16-year-old planning to enter medicine, Aldous Huxley was stricken by a serious eye disease which left him temporarily blind, and which derailed what certainly would have been a prominent career as a physician or scientist.

Crome Yellow has often been called "witty," as well as "talky," and it certainly owes as much to Vanity Fair as it may, surprisingly to some, owe to Tristram Shandy, although one might think that characters such as Mr. Barbecue-Smith and his remarkable writing theories could have some literary antecedents in Lawrence Sterne.

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Review:

"Delightful. Crome Yellow is witty, worldly and poetic" (The Times)

"I find it hard to keep my enthusiasm for Crome Yellow within decent bounds. It is at once irresistibly funny and shrewd in its criticisms of daily life" (Daily Express)

"With a strong, delightful and admirable talent for caricature, Huxley is at his entertaining best in his grimaces at modern movements and at the ridiculous earnestness of the young" (Observer)

"The tone of Huxley's story matches the title: it is a rich, full yellow which suggests the exhilarating glow of summer" (Times Literary Supplement)

From the Publisher:

'Delightful. Crome Yellow is witty, wordly and poetic' The Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Aegypan
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1603129766
• ISBN 13: 9781603129763
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 144