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  Crome Yellow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Crome Yellow is the first novel by British author Aldous Huxley.
It is the witty story of a house party at ‘Crome’ where there is a gathering of bright young things.
We hear some of the history of the house from Henry Wimbush, its owner and self-appointed historian; apocalypse is prophesied, virginity is lost and inspirational aphorisms are gained in a trance.
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 Amazon.co.uk: Crome Yellow: Complete & Unabridged: Books: Aldous Huxley,Michael Maloney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Crome Yellow is witty, wordly and poetic' The Times --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
"Crome Yellow" is a charmingly cruel dissection of a society attempting to recover from the 1914-18 war, a war which had swept away the social fabric of Europe.
"Crome Yellow" is a comedy, a satire of class and the pretensions and lotus eating assumptions of a class which is losing its role and its function and growing increasingly out of touch with the modern world.
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 Internet Archive: Details: Crome Yellow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Librivox's public domain recording of Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley.
Crome Yellow, published in 1921 was Aldous Huxley's first novel.
We hear some of the history of the house from Henry Wimbush, its owner and self appointed historian; Apocylapse is prophesied, virginity is lost, and inspirational aphorisms are gained in a trance.
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 Crome Yellow -- Chapter 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
There, on the opposite slope, a little higher up the valley, stood Crome, his destination.
He put on his brakes; this view of Crome was pleasant to linger over.
The façade with its three projecting towers rose precipitously from among the dark trees of the garden.
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 Crome Yellow (Unabridged) Audio Book
Crome Yellow (Unabridged) is now available as an audio book.
Crome Yellow (Unabridged) was authored by Aldous Huxley and is narrated by Robert Whitfield.
Crome Yellow (Unabridged) is a great audio book to use as a test of this concept.
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 Chrome yellow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Crome Yellow is also the title of a novel by Aldous Huxley
Chrome Yellow is a natural yellow pigment made of lead(II) chromate (PbCrO
It is commonly produced by mixing solutions of lead nitrate and potassium chromate and filtering off the lead chromate precipitate.
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 Amazon.com: Crome Yellow (Coleman Dowell British Literature Series): Books: Aldous Huxley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Crome Yellow introduces many ideas Huxley would explore in fuller and more exact detail later, but Whitfield's vocal acrobatics in portraying the cast of characters assembled at an English country estate for a summer vacation in the 1920's makes for dazzling aural entertainment.
Aldous Huxley was a young man and when he wrote Crome Yellow in the early twenties (not long out of college) he was more agnostic skeptic and social critic than the psychedelic mystic and dystopian prophet he would become.
Crome Yellow is a great introduction to Huxley, as well as a great way to know him better.
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 somaweb.org > Huxley's pathway to spiritual reality - author Aldous Huxley
Chrome yellow, one of the chrome colors noted for its clearness and brilliance, reflects golden yellow in its purest hue; thus, the luminescence of both chrome yellow and the house party at Crome has the potential to captivate with its dazzling brilliance.
Crome Yellow centers around the young poet Denis Stone, who, as his name implies, has the opportunity of being a "sparkling stone" with a bright and colorful poetic future of depth and intensity and a warm future full of love.
He and his lover, Helen Amberley (her last name a variant of the color amber -- a translucent yellow, one of the chrome-yellow hues used in stage lighting to simulate sunlight), sunbathing on the flat roof of Anthony's house, are spattered by the bright red blood of a dog dropped from an airplane.
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 crome in Plating at Coderdir.com. Page 3
Crome was the principal painter of the Norwich school.
He is often called Old Crome to distinguish him from his son who painted in the...
John Crome John Crome was apprenticed to a sign painter early in his life, and then traveled to London in 1790 to copy the works in his benefactor, Thomas Harveys personal collection.
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 Crome Yellow - Word Power
Crome's hosts, the world-weary Henry Wimbush and his exotic wife Priscilla are joined by a party of colourful guests whose intrigues and opinions ensure Denis's stay is a memorable one.
First published in 1921, 'Crome Yellow' was Aldous Huxley's much-acclaimed debut novel.
He began writing poetry and short stories in his early twenties, but it was his first novel, Crome Yellow(1921), which established his literary reputation.
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 Alibris: Yellow
Originally written to entertain his grandchildren during a train trip, LITTLE BLUE AND LITTLE YELLOW is the story that began Leo Lionni's career as a writer and illustrator of children's books.
In a powerful narrative, Murphy describes the illness that took its toll on the residents of Philadelphia in 1793, relating the epidemic to the major social and political events of the day and to 18th-century medical beliefs and practices.
Crome is an English country house to which Denis, an intensely self-conscious youth and would-be poet, goes to join a house party populated by a collection of eccentrics, spiritualists, psychoanalysands, aesthetes, and Communists.
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 Crome Yellow - Chapter XI
He inherited the estate from his father, to whom it had been granted at the time of the dissolution of the monasteries; for Crome was originally a cloister of monks and this swimming-pool their fish-pond.
That the hovels of the peasantry should look as though they had grown out of the earth, to which their inmates are attached, is right, no doubt, and suitable.
For, he argues in the third chapter of his 'Priuy Counsels', the necessities of nature are so base and brutish that in obeying them we are apt to forget that we are the noblest creatures of the universe.
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 Crome Yellow
Crome, his attempts to convey his thoughts to her are initially
The image of the tower is used by Huxley in "Crome Yellow" in a variety of
Aldous Huxley, "Crome Yellow", London: Flamingo, this ed.
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 Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley. Search, Read, Study, Discuss.
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.
Lambasting the post-Victorian standards of morality, CROME YELLOW is a witty masterpiece that, in F. Scott Fitzgerald's words, "is too irnonic to be called satire and too scornful to be called irony."
In exploring the characters of the book, artists, writers and gentry, one is struck with the idea that Huxley has constructed a literary 'Ship of Fools' and is anxious to let the reader be exposed to each one in his/her turn.
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 Crome Yellow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
As it was, its yellowness had the hint of a greenish tinge in it.
Realising, too, that he must abandon all ambitions in the great world, he determined to retire absolutely from it and to create, as it were, at Crome a private world of his own, in which all should be proportionable to himself.
"Crome and its household of dwarfs delighted Filomena, who felt herself now for the first time to be a free woman living among her equals in a friendly world.
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 Crome Yellow - Chapter XX
Lounging behind the wind-screen in his yellow sedan he was whirling across rural England.
Crome had been a little incident, an evanescent bubble on the stream of his life; it belonged already to the past.
In the visitor's book at Crome Ivor had left, according to his invariable custom in these cases, a poem.
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 Crome Yellow - Chapter XVIII
Ivor, who was punctilious in his devotions, came down early to breakfast and had his car at the door, ready to start, by a quarter to ten.
It was a smart, expensive-looking machine, enamelled a pure lemon yellow and upholstered in emerald green leather.
There were two seats--three if you squeezed tightly enough--and their occupants were protected from wind, dust, and weather by a glazed sedan that rose, an elegant eighteenth-century hump, from the midst of the body of the car.
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 Book Information: Crome Yellow :: Internet Book List :: A database of book information and reviews
On vacation from school, Denis goes to stay at Crome, an English country house inhabited 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 Crome.
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.
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 Symbolism Of A Yellow
yellow house becomes not just a sanctuary but a fragile treasure in...
yellow also representing gold), depicts the three gunas in a...
yellow field symbolises the golden bed in which he lies, the red fess his political beliefs (described by him on...
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 Dalkey Archive Press: Aldous Huxley
Lambasting the post-Victorian standards of morality, Crome Yellow 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."
Crome Yellow is determinedly eccentric and unflaggingly delightful."--Bookman
The novel is a satire of intellectual life in the 1920s‚ populated with characters based on such artists‚ politicians and intellectuals of the times as D. Lawrence‚ Katherine Mansfield‚ Sir Oswald Mosley‚ Nancy Cunard‚ and John Middleton Murray‚ as well as Huxley himself.
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 Amazon.co.uk: Crome Yellow: Books: Aldous Huxley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Crome's hosts, the world-weary Henry Wimbush and his exotic wife Pricilla are joined by a party of colourful guests whose intrigues and opinions ensure Denis' stay is a memorable one.
In the course of the weekend Henry tells his guests fantastical stories from the history of the house, Mr.
Barbeque-Smith invents inspirational aphorisms conceived in trances, Mary dispenses with her virginity on the roof, the local vicar prophesies the Apocolypes, the annual Crome Fair takes place and Denis tries to capture it all in poetry and has his heart broken.
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 Aldous Huxley
Huxley's original intent was to pursue medicine, however an eye ailment he acquired at age 16 prevented that pursuit and while still a student at Oxford, turned to literature, publishing two volumes of poetry.
His reputation as an author was firmly established in 1921 with the release of his first novel, Crome Yellow.
In later writings, he threw a critical eye upon western civilization.
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 Crome Yellow: Huxley
Peter then asked me if I thought these were Huxley's own views about elitism, and I replied that I hadn't looked at it from that point of view, but rather as one of the views voiced by a character, which again illustrated my point about the separation from nature.
I pointed out that their short term solution was to banish Ferdinando to Eton and then off on a grand European tour, in an effort to delay reality for a little longer.
The class agreed that this was a good example of the Crome residents fear of nature and anything 'normal~.
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 Psyberspace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Project Gutenberg -- Crome Yellow, by Aldous Huxley
I have been listening on a walkman to this novel.
This is a paragraph of text that could go in the sidebar.
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 Aldous Huxley : Crome Yellow : Chapter XVIII.
Aldous Huxley : Crome Yellow : Chapter XVIII.
There were two seats--three if you squeezed tightly enough--and their occupants were protected from wind, dust, and weather by a glazed sedan that rose, an elegant eighteenth- century hump, from the midst of the body of the car.
He repeated the lines to himself, and was desolated to think of all the murdered past.
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