Crome yellow
By: Aldous Huxley ; introduction by Michael Dirda.
Edition: 1st Dalkey Archive ed.
Series: Coleman Dowell British literature series; Coleman Dowell series
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
Subjects: Intellectuals -- Fiction; Country homes -- Fiction; England -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: On vacation from school, Denis goes to stay at Crome, an English country house inhabitated by several of Huxley's most outlandish characters--from Mr. Barbecue-Smith, who writes 1,500 publishable words an hour by "getting in touch" with his "subconscious," to Henry Wimbush, who is obsessed with writing the definitive history of chrome. Denis's stay proves to be a disaster amid his weak attempts to attract the girl of his dreams and the ridicule he endures regarding his plan to write a novel about love and art. Lambasting the post-Victorian standards of morality, Chrome yello is a witty masterpiece that, in F. Scott Fitzgerald's words, "is too ironic to be called satire and too scornful to be called irony."