Crome yellow - Aldous Huxley

The wit and posturing of the twenties are nowhere better caught than in Crome Yellow, Aldous Huxley’s first full-length work of fiction.

Sparkling conversation and romantic intrigue in beautiful surroundings were the essential ingredients of a successful house-party, and the guests who gathered at Crome were ready to give of their best. A painter, a poet, a spiritual journalist and ladies of assorted morals were among those entertaining and being entertained by stories as bizarre as that of the Misses Lapith who appeared to live on air – or the dwarfs of Crome whose happiness was shattered by the birth of a son, grotesquely normal-sized.