| Edition |
1st Dalkey Archive ed. |
| Description |
x, 152 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Coleman Dowell British literature series
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Coleman Dowell series
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Coleman Dowell British literature series.
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Coleman Dowell series.
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| Summary |
On vacation from school, Denis goes to stay at Crome, an English country house inhabitated by several of Huxley's most outlandish characters--from Mr. Barbecue-Smith, who writes 1,500 publishable words an hour by "getting in touch" with his "subconscious," to Henry Wimbush, who is obsessed with writing the definitive history of chrome. Denis's stay proves to be a disaster amid his weak attempts to attract the girl of his dreams and the ridicule he endures regarding his plan to write a novel about love and art. Lambasting the post-Victorian standards of morality, Chrome yello is a witty masterpiece that, in F. Scott Fitzgerald's words, "is too ironic to be called satire and too scornful to be called irony." |
| Subject |
Intellectuals -- Fiction.
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Intellectuals. |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Subject |
Country homes -- Fiction.
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Country homes. |
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England -- Fiction.
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England. |
| Genre/Form |
Humorous fiction.
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Humorous fiction.
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Satirical literature.
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Satirical literature.
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| ISBN |
1564783049 alkaline paper |
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