Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley

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In this, Aldous Huxley’s first novel, he examines, with a deft and satirical touch -- and true to life -- the crises and contradictions of our little lives (or, in this case, the “little lives” of the English upper class immediately following World War I).  Set in the context of school-holiday visit to Crome, the estate of Henry Wimbush, Huxley portrays a collection of interesting and learned guests acting out their various personal dramas.  F. Scott Fitzgerald said that it was “"is too ironic to be called satire and too scornful to be called irony."

The Times Literary Supplement said of it: “"Mr. Huxley's personages are drawn with an extreme verve of crispness; in fact, the merit of his comedy is that it becomes always more amusing as it grows."

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