Title: Crome Yellow
Original: Crome Yellow
Category: Novel
Author: Aldous Huxley
Publisher: Vintage
Year: 2004
Pgs: 170
Weight: 0.145 kg
ISBN: 978-0-09-94618-9-0
This book is in English
About the book
Denis is certainly not alone; Henry Wimbush and his exotic wife Priscilla have been joined by a host of colourful guests. Each of these guests has agendas of their own and opinions they have every attention of sharing. There is Mr Scogan a cynical philosopher, Gombauld a modern young painter, the pompous journalistic Mr Barbecue- Smith and flirtatious Ivor arrives later. Jenny, whose partial deafness allows her a role as an observer of the rest, Anne who Denis falls for rather hard but who prefers Gombauld and Mary whose virginity has become a burden she feels she must rid herself of – but who? These characters are allegedly based upon some of those famous Bloomsbury figures who surrounded Lady Ottaline and her set –including Huxley himself and the artist Dora Carrington.
While Priscilla is obsessed with spiritualism, her husband Henry concerns himself with compiling a detailed history of Crome, extracts of which we are given – these stories within the story were my favourite bits.
There is very little of any plot as such – the book revolves mainly around the amorous goings on of one of two characters and the ideas, opinions and philosophies which the rest of the party take every opportunity to expound.
