Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley

by Aldous Huxley

Overview

CROME YELLOW is a witty recounting of a house party, wherein Huxley satirizes the fads and fashions of the time--we hear the history of the house 'Crome' from Henry Wimbush, its owner and self-appointed historian; apocalypse is prophesied, virginity is lost, and inspirational aphorisms are gained in a trance. The protagonist, Denis Stone, tries to capture it all in poetry and is disappointed in love.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014133326
Publisher:	Halcyon Press Ltd.
Publication date:	04/09/2012
Series:	Halcyon Classics , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	480 KB

About the Author

Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894-1963) was an English writer and essayist, best known for his distopian novel BRAVE NEW WORLD. Born into the prominent Huxley family in Surrey in 1894, Huxley wrote his first (unpublished) novel at 17 and published CROME YELLOW in 1921. He taught briefly at Eton, where George Orwell was one of his pupils. Huxley wrote BRAVE NEW WORLD in 1932 and moved to the United States in 1937, where he lived until his death. He died on the same day as C.S. Lewis and John F. Kennedy.