Crome Yellow

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Crome Yellow is Aldous Huxley’s satirical 1921 novel that lampoons English upper-class society and intellectual pretensions through the events at a country house gathering.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf novel
satirical novel
author Aldous Huxley NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
firstEditionFormat print
firstPublishedIn London, England
surface form: London
followsInAuthorOeuvre Huxley’s early career phase
form prose fiction
genre satire
social novel
hasAdaptation radio dramatization
hasCharacter Anne Wimbush NERFINISHED
Denis Stone
Gombauld
Henry Wimbush NERFINISHED
Ivor Lombard
Jenny Mullion NERFINISHED
Isabel Colegate
surface form: Mary Bracegirdle

Mr. Scogan
Priscilla Wimbush
hasFictionalLocation Crome
hasPart country house party
philosophical conversations
romantic subplots
hasSubject art and aesthetics
literary culture
modernity
religion and spirituality
sexual mores
social class
influencedBy George Bernard Shaw
Oscar Wilde
language English
literaryMovement modernism
mainTheme aestheticism
critique of English upper-class society
intellectual pretension
romantic entanglements
narrativePerspective third-person
notableFor early example of Huxley’s fiction
satirical portraits of intellectuals
witty dialogue
parodies English country-house novel tradition
protagonist Denis Stone
publicationYear 1921
publisher Chatto & Windus NERFINISHED
setting English country house
settingPeriod early 20th century
titleOrigin name of the country house Crome

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