- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Flamingo; (Reissue) edition (10 Jan 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 000654729X
- ISBN-13: 978-0006547297
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.7 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 192,897 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Huxley mocks the fads, foibles and spirit of his time with an unsurpassed wit and brilliance
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Crome Yellow is the first novel by British author Aldous Huxley. In the book, Huxley satirises the fads and fashions of the time.
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Although best remembered for his "Brave New World", Huxley first established himself in literary circles with his 1921 novel, "Crome Yellow". This is Huxley, if not quite the outcast, certainly the detached commentator, able to sit back and observe his society in action.
Huxley would always be something of an outsider - though born into a wealthy family in 1894, his life would be disrupted, first by the death of his mother when he was 14, then by illness, when he was 16, which left him blind for over a year and seriously limited his eyesight for the rest of his life. The illness had enduring effects - Huxley did not serve in the First World War, so was distanced from the survivors of his generation who made it back. The illness also prevented him from entering a career in pure science.
"Crome Yellow" is a charmingly cruel dissection of a society attempting to recover from the 1914-18 war, a war which had swept away the social fabric of Europe. Crome is a large country house which attracts the English upper classes and pseudo intelligentsia. We follow the experiences of young Denis Stone, a would be poet, as he watches the other guests.
"Crome Yellow" is a comedy, a satire of class and the pretensions and lotus eating assumptions of a class which is losing its role and its function and growing increasingly out of touch with the modern world. It presents amusing portraits and enjoyable anecdotes about life in a country house. Stylistically, however, it is dated, and the reader may find many of its references and allusions are obtuse. An interesting rather than a captivating read.
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At first glance, quite an unassuming plot - take a big country house, fill it with 20's socialites, and make a novel out of it. But Huxley provides more than enough intrigue to keep the pages turning. A most agreeable first novel, and Huxley is extraordinarily insightful; he was only in his mid-twenties when this work was conceived (contains the "bottle-breeding" idea which later resurfaces in "Brave New World").
Read "Antic Hay" next, for a more heady, urban mix of 20's culture, ideas and passion.
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If you enjoy subtle ironic self-deprecating humor and you love writers who can paint pictures with words you'll probably love this little story. I read it for the first time this last week and laughed all the way through. Huxley had a keen understanding of human nature. I'd compare the book to one of Pieter Bruegel's paintings. It's set in the countryside (at a house party) and is full of people just doing what they normally do. If you only glance at it, it doesn't seem to have much going on, but if you look closer at how the characters are interacting you find it seething with humanity and humor. I don't generally enjoy early 20th century "literature" because most of it is just so depressing, but this was lovely! For the first time in a long time I finished a book and wished I could meet the characters.
If you love reading great dialogue, the timing, cadence and rythm are brilliant! If this hasn't been made into a movie, it should be.
If you love reading great dialogue, the timing, cadence and rythm are brilliant! If this hasn't been made into a movie, it should be.
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Not for me
I bought this for a book club reading, but I was unable to finish it. The long paragraphs of description and slow pace meant I just didn't want to keep turning those pages, so in... Read more
Published 1 month ago by mabel
Somewhere between " Howards End" and "Blandings Castle"
Crome Yellow is holiday reading rather than heavyweight Huxley; it is his debut novel written in his twenties, set in the twenties and is funny, witty and clever. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Gorilla
Fantastic book
Fantastic book, damaged due to poor packaging from CCC Press! Card board packaging is needed for books not jiffy bags!
Published 18 months ago by edthered
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This book was purchased for an elderly gentleman. He was thrilled with the price, condition of the book and it arrived in a couple of days!
Published 19 months ago by jaygee
Fantastic
I enjoyed this novel from beginning to end. It's superbly written and has many interesting ideas and lots of lovely descriptions. I got to like the characters too.
Published 21 months ago by Andrew
Witty, detached but sympathetic
My previous reading of Huxley was his most famous novel "Brave New World" and his most famous non-fiction "The Gates of Perception/ Heaven and Hell", neither of which had imbued me... Read more
Published on 16 Sep 2009 by Guardian of the Scales
Short and witty, if decidedly of its time
Crome Yellow suffers somewhat from being slightly dated, not so much in language as in that the high society it lampoons no longer exists. Read more
Published on 12 Aug 2008 by Pablo K
Disappointing
I was very disappointed in this book, and struggled to reach the end. If it is indeed a comedy satire as another reviewer suggests, (and I bow to what may be superior knowledge) I... Read more
Published on 18 Jan 2008 by Lisa
Amusing, light hearted Huxley.
I enjoyed reading this book tremendously, Huxley achieves amazing depth of character in such a short novel and provides an amusing account of the English excentric amoung others in... Read more
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