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Huxley launched his career as a novelist with this 1921 effort in which a student named Denys spends his holiday in an English country house located in the small town of Crome. Denys encounters many unusual residents, including a girl who quickly steals his heart. Not one of Huxley's major efforts, this is mostly for laughs. This edition includes a new introduction by Michael Dirda. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
From the Publisher
“Delightful. Crome Yellow is witty, worldly and poetic”—The Times
“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
“Fine satirical writing. Crome Yellow is determinedly eccentric and unflaggingly delightful.”—Bookman
“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
“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
“Published when Huxley was only twenty-seven years old, Crome Yellow is a story distinct from Brave New World, albeit being laced with allusions that subversively seep through the cracks and provide the reader with a glimpse into a dystopia that has yet to flower. This first novel truly established his Huxley's reputation, and it is easy to see why: it’s funny, intellectual, relatable and, perhaps most importantly, distinctly unpretentious.”—Tribe“Aldous Huxley’s very funny first novel, Crome Yellow, features not just a varied smattering of invisible books and books-in-progress, but what might be called second-degree invisibles …”—The New York Times
“Acerbic wit”—The Atlantic
‘[Huxley] has an utterly ruthless habit of building up an elaborate and sometimes almost romantic structure and then blowing it down with something too ironic to be called satire and too scornful to be called irony. This is a book that mocks at mockery. This is the highest point so far attained by Anglo-Saxon sophistication … the wittiest man now writing in English.’ — F. Scott Fitzgerald
