Crome Yellow: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Crome Yellow, credited to Aldous Huxley, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley, Version 2. Read in English by Expatriate Fascinating and brilliant at many levels, Huxley's spoof of Lady Ottoline Morrell's famous bohemian gatherings is difficult to categorize. The ironic tone and caricaturish rendering of some characters makes it partly entertaining satire, but intertwined with the irony are a very human love story and much poignant social commentary. Denis Stone (Huxley himself) is a young poet hopelessly enamored of the languid Anne Wimbush, who comes to Priscilla Wimbush's Crome estate for several weeks of intellectual and artistic escape. Along the way of his love affair, he engages in or eavesdrops upon conversations with other guests about the War, about eschatology, about future society, about Sex, about Art, about Love. Several of these dialogues directly foreshadow themes of Huxley's later dystopian masterpiece, Brave New World. Others show a tragic prescience of another great European war on its way, an awareness that future tragedy might attempt to complete the unfinished business of the recent Great War. Huxley's first novel, Crome Yellow is well worth reading in its own right, while containing embryonic forms of so much of Huxley's later intellectual themes. - Summary by Expatriate

Recording facts

• Recording title: Crome Yellow
• Author credits: Aldous Huxley
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 30
• Listed recording duration: 6:04:36

Catalogue topics

• bohemia
• bloomsbury
• intelligentsia

Opening tracks: first 24 of 30

1. 01 - Chapter 01 — 7:03
2. 02 - Chapter 02 — 12:53
3. 03 - Chapter 03 — 11:49
4. 04 - Chapter 04 — 11:11
5. 05 - Chapter 05 — 8:58
6. 06 - Chapter 06 — 15:44
7. 07 - Chapter 07 — 9:38
8. 08 - Chapter 08 — 4:32
9. 09 - Chapter 09 — 18:14
10. 10 - Chapter 10 — 6:41
11. 11 - Chapter 11 — 12:26
12. 12 - Chapter 12 — 11:35
13. 13 - Chapter 13 — 32:54
14. 14 - Chapter 14 — 8:10
15. 15 - Chapter 15 — 7:28
16. 16 - Chapter 16 — 6:21
17. 17 - Chapter 17 — 18:40
18. 18 - Chapter 18 — 8:08
19. 19 - Chapter 19 — 31:38
20. 20 - Chapter 20 — 10:41
21. 21 - Chapter 21 — 7:22
22. 22 - Chapter 22 — 17:49
23. 23 - Chapter 23 — 5:37
24. 24 - Chapter 24 — 12:19

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