Crome Yellow
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0099461897
ISBN 13
9780099461890
Category
Unknown
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Publication Year
2004
Publisher
Pages
170
Description
One of the great social commentators of the 20th century, Aldous Huxley introduces us to a delightfully cynical, comic, and severe group of artists and intellectuals in this 1921 novel, "too ironic to be called satire and too scornful to be called irony" (F. Scott Fitzgerald). On vacation from school, Denis visits Crome, an English country house inhabited by such outlandish characters as Mr. Barbecue-Smith, who writes 1500 publishable words an hour by "getting in touch" with his "subconscious," and Henry Wimbush, who is obsessed with producing the definitive History of Crome. Denis's stay proves to be a disaster, however, 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. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
