Crome Yellow: A Novel
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
A sparkling work of satirical fiction, Crome Yellow chronicles the misadventures of Denis Stone, a young, romantically hapless poet who retreats to the English country house of Crome for the summer, only to find himself surrounded by an eccentric cast of intellectuals, artists, and social poseurs. Aldous Huxley skewers the pretensions of the early twentieth-century British intelligentsia with razor-sharp wit, presenting a world where grand philosophical pronouncements and romantic ambitions consistently collide with absurd reality. The novel unfolds as a series of witty conversations and comic episodes, each one illustrating the gap between idealism and human folly with devastating precision. Written when Huxley was just twenty-seven, it established his reputation as one of the most incisive satirists of his generation, drawing comparisons to the work of Thomas Love Peacock. Readers who appreciate cerebral comedy and elegant prose will find Crome Yellow a brilliantly observed portrait of a society in love with its own cleverness.
Author: Aldous Huxley
Format: Hardback
Published: 1949, Chatto & Windus
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
A sparkling work of satirical fiction, Crome Yellow chronicles the misadventures of Denis Stone, a young, romantically hapless poet who retreats to the English country house of Crome for the summer, only to find himself surrounded by an eccentric cast of intellectuals, artists, and social poseurs. Aldous Huxley skewers the pretensions of the early twentieth-century British intelligentsia with razor-sharp wit, presenting a world where grand philosophical pronouncements and romantic ambitions consistently collide with absurd reality. The novel unfolds as a series of witty conversations and comic episodes, each one illustrating the gap between idealism and human folly with devastating precision. Written when Huxley was just twenty-seven, it established his reputation as one of the most incisive satirists of his generation, drawing comparisons to the work of Thomas Love Peacock. Readers who appreciate cerebral comedy and elegant prose will find Crome Yellow a brilliantly observed portrait of a society in love with its own cleverness.