Crome Yellow

An intellectual summer party at an English country house is satirized with "ingenuity, sophistication [and] impudence" by the author of A Brave New World (H. L. Mencken).When young poet Denis Stone is invited to a party at Crome, country home of Priscilla and Henry Wimbush, he is eager to join their coterie of authors and intellectuals. The Wimbushes are famous for gathering stimulating company fo...