Crome Yellow edition by Aldous Huxley Literature Fiction eBooks
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A witty recounting of a house party, wherein Huxley satirises 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.
Crome Yellow edition by Aldous Huxley Literature Fiction eBooks
This novel, published in 1921, was Huxley's first. While it touches upon some serious issues, (note a passing conversation that prefigures a bit of "Brave New World"), it is mostly a send up of various literary, and actual, "types" and of the entire country house genre. Our hero is the rather superficial, confused and unobservant Denis, but his naiveté actually spares him from Huxley's most withering observations. That said, Huxley was rather young himself, and his version of "withering" drifts often enough into the comic, witty, and indulgent, which makes the whole book lighter and more entertaining than it might otherwise have been. There is satire, and snark, and some wonderful word-smithing, but nothing of the sour, bitter or vengeful that one occasionally encounters in the work of older and more battle hardened satirists.This is the sort of book I've been sitting on for years, waiting for a chance to get around to it. Since it is available as a Kindle freebie, being in the public domain, I seized that opportunity to give a read. If you like banter, decent conversation, some consciously showy writing, and country house scenes with the occasional bit of bracing satire, this might suit just fine. (Interesting aside. The other freebie I read right before this was Fitzgerald's "This Side of Paradise". It was published the same time as this, was also a debut novel, and uses Princeton as the American equivalent of a country house getaway. Read them side by side for a very rewarding experience. As they say in Lit. 101 - compare and contrast.)
I read the free download of this book on a Kindle Touch. The book is well formatted and presents well on the Kindle. The native font is fine, but all the Kindle options - font selection, font size, line spacing, and margins - work properly. The Kindle "Go To" function was a satisfactory option for navigation. There are no notes or annotations, and no editor foreword or supplementary material. This is a bare bones, but faithful, transcription of the text. This copy avoids the dreaded error where a letter, (usually "f" or "t" for some reason), has been omitted everywhere in the text. The text here is clean. There are no odd page breaks, no paragraphing problems, no garbled sentences, and no other format issues.
Bottom line - this is an excellent choice for browsing or experimenting and a nice freebie find. Actually, it is an entertaining and rewarding read in whatever form or edition you can find it.
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Crome Yellow edition by Aldous Huxley Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
The English country house weekend is given the treatment here. This is a satire of this event, the basis for many hundreds of novels. All the characters are some what exaggerated as to be expected of a satire, but the mix allows the author to express his ideas and views on everything.
We have unrequited love, the 'cad', the women who are- beautiful, strange, beguiling and weird. The master of the house is delightfully eccentric and the house "Crome" has a story itself.
This is Huxley's first book but the ideas for 'Brave New World' are already being thought through and discussed here.
This is a short read but Huxley gives you much to think about .
I liked this book quite a bit and I am surprised at the negative comments by some of the reviewers. It does contain quite a bit of ironic humor and a plentiful cast of interesting characters with a great deal of comic interaction. There are two chapters which are part of the "history" of the Crome estate; and these two chapters are totally delightful. This is a much easier book to read on than it would be in print because of quick access to the dictionary which is, alas, necessary because of Huxley's gratuitous use of arcane and archaic words. But if one can overlook that irritant, then this is a very enjoyable book and not one to be taken too seriously. I especially loved the idea that one character, an Anglican minister, put forth that the Pope and the Jesuits were to blame for the (first) World War That kept me laughing for an hour! And then there is the old guy dressed in drag as a gypsy fortune teller for the fair . . .
Publication date 1921
Huxley's first novel, written in imitation of such books as Headlong Hall and South Wind.
A country visit is the occasion for the wine and conversation to flow freely- thus, the fledgling poet Denis, the older intellectual, Scogan, somewhat past his prime, Wimbush, the antiquarian, who has some pretty entertaining accounts of his ancestors (really just short stories- like many a first novel, it has the flavor of a "Collected Works.")
I'd even call it a 'young adult' novel, insofar as the protagonist, Denis, is preoccupied with his lack of success with women. Of course, it would be for young adults studying for their SATs- I counted five 'SAT words' in one sentence at one point
"... For the sake of peace and quiet Denis had retired earlier on this same afternoon to his bedroom. He wanted to work, but the hour was a drowsy one, and lunch, so recently eaten, weighed heavily on body and mind. The *meridian* demon was upon him; he was possessed by that bored and hopeless *post-prandial* melancholy which the *coenobites* of old knew and feared under the name of "accidie."
(Note that he solves the problem with something unavailable to the 'coenobites of old,' namely gin.)
My favorite 'set piece' in this assemblage of set pieces, one I remember well from twenty years ago, is Denis explaining to Scogan how poetical and marvelous the word 'carminative' seemed until, using it in a poem, he has to look up the meaning.
"... And now"—Denis spread out his hands, palms upwards, despairingly—"now I know what carminative really means."
"Well, what DOES it mean?" asked Mr. Scogan, a little impatiently.
"Carminative," said Denis, lingering lovingly over the syllables, "carminative. I imagined vaguely that it had something to do with carmen-carminis, still more vaguely with caro-carnis, and its derivations, like carnival and carnation. Carminative—there was the idea of singing and the idea of flesh, rose-coloured and warm, with a suggestion of the jollities of mi-Careme and the masked holidays of Venice. Carminative—the warmth, the glow, the interior ripeness were all in the word. Instead of which..."
This novel, published in 1921, was Huxley's first. While it touches upon some serious issues, (note a passing conversation that prefigures a bit of "Brave New World"), it is mostly a send up of various literary, and actual, "types" and of the entire country house genre. Our hero is the rather superficial, confused and unobservant Denis, but his naiveté actually spares him from Huxley's most withering observations. That said, Huxley was rather young himself, and his version of "withering" drifts often enough into the comic, witty, and indulgent, which makes the whole book lighter and more entertaining than it might otherwise have been. There is satire, and snark, and some wonderful word-smithing, but nothing of the sour, bitter or vengeful that one occasionally encounters in the work of older and more battle hardened satirists.
This is the sort of book I've been sitting on for years, waiting for a chance to get around to it. Since it is available as a freebie, being in the public domain, I seized that opportunity to give a read. If you like banter, decent conversation, some consciously showy writing, and country house scenes with the occasional bit of bracing satire, this might suit just fine. (Interesting aside. The other freebie I read right before this was Fitzgerald's "This Side of Paradise". It was published the same time as this, was also a debut novel, and uses Princeton as the American equivalent of a country house getaway. Read them side by side for a very rewarding experience. As they say in Lit. 101 - compare and contrast.)
I read the free download of this book on a Touch. The book is well formatted and presents well on the . The native font is fine, but all the options - font selection, font size, line spacing, and margins - work properly. The "Go To" function was a satisfactory option for navigation. There are no notes or annotations, and no editor foreword or supplementary material. This is a bare bones, but faithful, transcription of the text. This copy avoids the dreaded error where a letter, (usually "f" or "t" for some reason), has been omitted everywhere in the text. The text here is clean. There are no odd page breaks, no paragraphing problems, no garbled sentences, and no other format issues.
Bottom line - this is an excellent choice for browsing or experimenting and a nice freebie find. Actually, it is an entertaining and rewarding read in whatever form or edition you can find it.
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