Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley

Crome Yellow is the first novel by British author Aldous Huxley, published in 1921. Though a social satire of its time, it is still appreciated and has been adapted to different media.

A house party at Crome is viewed largely through the eyes of Denis Stone. Described by his hostess as "one of our younger poets", he has been invited by Priscilla and Henry Wimbush to join their summer guests. Denis is secretly in love with their niece, Anne Wimbush, who appears more interested in the artist Gombauld. The rather naïve flapper, Mary Bracegirdle, decides to embark on an amorous adventure so as to overcome her repressions and makes unsuccessful advances to Denis and Gombauld before falling for the libertine Ivor Lombard one summer night.

307 pages.
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