Crome Yellow
At a dilapidated English country house called Crome, a parade of self-important artists, poets, and philosophers gather for a summer holiday, each convinced they've cornered the market on truth. Aldous Huxley's debut novel dissects these eccentrics with surgical precision: there's a poet who worships his own verses, a novelist obsessed with sex, a visionary who channels spirits, and a dipsomaniac philosopher with a genius for pretension. The result is a glittering comedy of manners where every conversation is a battlefield and nobody notices they're being laughed at. Written in 1921, Crome Yellow marks Huxley flexing the satirical muscles he'd later use for Brave New World, though here the target isn't dystopia but the comfortable absurdity of the educated class. If you've ever sat through a dinner party where someone won't stop explaining their theory of everything, you'll recognize every character.
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“The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation'”
— Aldous Huxley
“All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.””
— Aldous Huxley
“... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.””
— Aldous Huxley
“When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she”
— Aldous Huxley
“Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.””
— Aldous Huxley
“Words are man's first and most grandiose invention. With language he created a whole new universe;””
— Aldous Huxley
“No, give me the past. It doesn’t change; it’s all there in black and white, and you can get to know about it comfortably and decorously and, above all, privately - by reading. … As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium.””
— Aldous Huxley
“Two hours. One hundred and twenty minutes. Anything might bedone in that time. Anything. Nothing. Oh, he had had hundreds ofhours, and what had he done with them? Wasted them, spilt theprecious minutes as though his reservoir were inexhaustible.””
— Aldous Huxley
“The creation by word-power of something out of nothing--what is that but magic? And, may I add, what is that but literature?””
— Aldous Huxley
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