false 53672 39 A comical cast of outlandish characters has gathered in the small English town of Crome for a social outing at the estate of Henry Wimbush. Among the odd, learned guests are a highly prolific writer, an idealist with plans for a "Rational State" and a sensitive poet haplessly in love with Wimbush's niece. The <i>Crome</i> of the title is an English Country House in which most of the action occurs. Huxley's first novel, <i>Crome Yellow,</i> 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. Some who know only <I>Brave New World</I> may not know that as a 16-year-old planning to enter medicine, 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. <I>Crome Yellow</I> has often been called "witty," as well as "talky," and it certainly owes as much to <I>Vanity Fair</I> as it may, surprisingly to some, owe to <I>Tristram Shandy,</I> although one might think that characters such as Mr. Barbecue-Smith and his remarkable writing theories could have some literary antecedents in Lawrence Sterne. Denis Smith, the protagonist of <I>Crome Yellow,</I> attempts to cross wits with the denizens of Crome, particularly Mr. & Mrs. Winbush and the remarkable Mr. Barbecue-Smith--in pursuit of a star-crossed love, and in the face of another girl who possibly loves him. 3318727 1921 Crome Yellow total:508|5:67|4:172|3:186|2:65|1:18| 508 1729 862 52 53672 0486436632 9780486436630 409 37 3.40 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170429525m/53672.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53672.Crome_Yellow 5 2 false Sun Dec 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 14:41:59 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 07 08:00:57 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 53672 0486436632 9780486436630 409 37 3.40 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170429525m/53672.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53672.Crome_Yellow 3 0 false Thu Jun 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 09:00:25 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 09:10:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 53672 0486436632 9780486436630 409 37 3.40 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170429525m/53672.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53672.Crome_Yellow 3 0 false Thu May 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 12:28:53 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 12:41:07 -0700 2009 Crome Yellow when I was in high school. Since I had been less than thrilled with Huxley's more famous Brave New World, I passed on the novel. Recently seeing the book on our local library shelf, I opted to check it out. Maybe I simply hadn't been ready for Huxley in high s...more...]]> 53672 0486436632 9780486436630 409 37 3.40 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170429525m/53672.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53672.Crome_Yellow 4 0 false Sun Jun 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 11:37:23 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 19:57:28 -0700 2009 Crome Yellow (1921) is Aldous Huxley's sketchbook of the Britain's post-war culturally effete. A month-long house party at a Tudor manor, Crome Yellow, provides the backdrop for a Wodehousian cast of eccentric character...more...]]> 3282410 0099461897 9780099461890 9 3 3.40 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3282410.Crome_Yellow 4 0 false Wed Nov 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 17 16:42:33 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 28 08:26:32 -0800 2009 A satire of the 'Country House' novel popular in the inter-war period. This book is populated by characters willing to discourse at length about their ideas and interests. In some places these pre-figure Huxley's better known novel Brave New World. Examples of this include the babies grown in ...more...]]> 53672 0486436632 9780486436630 409 37 3.40 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170429525m/53672.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53672.Crome_Yellow 4 0 false Mon Dec 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 10 08:02:12 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 10 08:16:52 -0800 2009 more...]]> 53672 0486436632 9780486436630 409 37 3.40 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170429525m/53672.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53672.Crome_Yellow 1 0 false Wed May 01 00:00:00 -0700 1991 Sat Feb 21 07:20:10 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 06:50:46 -0800 2009 more...]]> 53672 0486436632 9780486436630 409 37 3.40 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170429525m/53672.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53672.Crome_Yellow 0 0 false Tue Sep 30 11:44:02 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 12 12:18:42 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 30 11:44:02 -0700 2008 Crome Yellow (1921) - Aldous Huxley
Setting: A month long party at a country castle, Crome, by an odd group of leisure-class 'creative' artists. This is comic satire, the dialog and situations are very humorous. I really enjoyed the shifting romantic attachments and much of the 'learned' discus...more...]]> 3206426 0760760500 9780760760505 4 4 3.40 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3206426.Crome_Yellow 4 0 false Tue Jul 29 10:42:47 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 29 06:41:05 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 29 10:42:47 -0700 2008 more...]]> 53672 0486436632 9780486436630 409 37 3.40 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170429525m/53672.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53672.Crome_Yellow 3 0 false Mon Jan 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 06:05:43 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 07:39:32 -0800 2009 more...]]> 6786658 8562022934 9788562022937 6 1 3.40 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6786658-crome-yellow 3 0 false Fri Nov 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 03 08:58:03 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 17:37:06 -0800 2009 more...]]> 53672 0486436632 9780486436630 409 37 3.40 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170429525m/53672.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53672.Crome_Yellow 3 0 false Tue Jan 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 08:41:05 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 08:41:05 -0800 2009 more...]]> 53672 0486436632 9780486436630 409 37 3.40 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170429525m/53672.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53672.Crome_Yellow 3 0 false Mon Oct 05 12:09:27 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 12:10:36 -0700 2009
The best point: when one of the characters describes the plot of Brave New World in casual conversation.
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