Crome Yellow - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crome Yellow write by Aldous Huxley. This book was released on 1922. Crome Yellow available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Crome Yellow
Crome Yellow - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crome Yellow write by Aldous Huxley. This book was released on 2013-12-01. Crome Yellow available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A witty recounting of a house party, wherein Huxley satirises the fads and fashions of the time--we hear the history of the house 'Crome' from Henry Wimbush, its owner and self-appointed historian; apocalypse is prophesied, virginity is lost, and inspirational aphorisms are gained in a trance. The protagonist, Denis Stone, tries to capture it all in poetry and is disappointed in love.
Those Barren Leaves
Those Barren Leaves - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Those Barren Leaves write by Aldous Huxley. This book was released on 2022-03-04T03:01:11Z. Those Barren Leaves available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mrs. Aldwinkle, an English aristocrat of a certain age, has purchased a mansion in the Italian countryside. She wishes to bring a salon of intellectual luminaries into her orbit, and to that end she invites a strange cast of characters to spend time with her in her palazzo: Irene, her young niece; Ms. Thriplow, a governess-turned-novelist; Mr. Calamy, a handsome young man of great privilege and even greater ennui; Mr. Cardan, a worldly gentleman whose main talent seems to be the enjoyment of life; Hovenden, a young motorcar-obsessed lord with a speech impediment; and Mr. Falx, a socialist leader. To this unlikely cast is soon added Mr. Chelifer, an author with an especially florid, overwrought style that is wasted on his day job as editor of The Rabbit Fancier’s Gazette, and the Elvers, a scheming brother who is the guardian of his mentally-challenged sister. As this unlikely group mingles, they discuss a great many grand topics: love, art, language, life, culture. Yet very early on the reader comes to realize that behind the pompousness of their elaborate discussions lies nothing but vacuity—these characters are a satire of the self-important intellectuals of Huxley’s era. His skewering of their intellectual barrenness continues as the group moves on to a trip around the surrounding country, in a satire of the Grand Tour tradition. The party brings their English snobbery out in full force as they traipse around Rome, sure of nothing else except in their belief that Italy is culturally superior simply because it’s Italy. As the vacation winds down, we’re left with a biting lampoon of the elites who suppose themselves to be at the height of art and culture—the kinds of personalities that arise in every generation, sure of their own greatness but unable to actually contribute anything to the world of art and culture that they feel is so important. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Politics vs. Literature
Politics vs. Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Politics vs. Literature write by George Orwell. This book was released on 2021-01-01. Politics vs. Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. Politics vs. Literature, the fourth in the Orwell’s Essays series, is, at heart, a review of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. Having been given a copy of the book on his eighth birthday, Orwell knows it inside out, and thinks highly of it; it is ‘pessimistic’, though, he says – ‘it descends into political partisanship of a narrow kind,’ designed to ‘humiliate man by reminding him that he is weak and ridiculous.’ Using the book as an example of enjoying a book whose author one cannot stand, Orwell goes on to say that he considers Gulliver’s Travels a work of art, leaving the reader to reconsider the books on their own shelves. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times
Crow Mellow
Crow Mellow - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crow Mellow write by Julian Davies. This book was released on 2014. Crow Mellow available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Julian Davies sixth and most unusual novel, is a contemporary social satire closely based on Aldous Huxley's first novel from 1921, Crome Yellow. This playful response to another book is startlingly furthered by the text being surrounded by almost 400 drawings by Phil Day.
