Aldous Huxley 
Crome Yellow (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading) 

Since its initial publication in 1921, Aldous Huxleys
Crome Yellow has delighted readers with its ironic wit aimed at a diverse carnival of pretentious British upper-class characters. Huxleys satiric novel exposes the social hypocrisy of a rigidly class-conscious British establishment that was trying to forget World War I had ever happened. His characters hide their insecurities behind masks of pseudo-intellectuality. Even the books title,
Crome Yellow, is a clever metaphor inferring the stark differences between appearance and reality.

About the author

London-born Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894-1963) was a poet, novelist, dramatist, essayist, and humanist philosopher. He attended Eton and Oxford and briefly taught at Eton before devoting himself solely to writing.
Crome Yellows critical success earned him advances for future novels, and his fifth novel was
Brave New World (1932), which is one of the most read books in literary history.