"Which English author wrote ""Chrome Yellow "" in 1921?"
"with him. In 2014, Australian novelist and independent publisher Julian Davies wrote ""Crow Mellow"" which he describes as ""a contemporary social satire closely based on Aldous Huxley's ... ""Crome Yellow"""". Chapter XIII was adapted by Philip Mackie as a one-off 60 minute play, ""The Dwarves"", for BBC Radio 4. Crome Yellow Crome Yellow is the first novel by British author Aldous Huxley, published in 1921. In the book, Huxley satirises the fads and fashions of the time. It is the story of a house party at Crome, a parodic version of Garsington Manor, home of Lady Ottoline Morrell, a house"
"novel and first dystopian work. In the 1920s he was also a contributor to ""Vanity Fair"" and British ""Vogue"" magazines. During the First World War, Huxley spent much of his time at Garsington Manor near Oxford, home of Lady Ottoline Morrell, working as a farm labourer. There he met several Bloomsbury Group figures, including Bertrand Russell, Alfred North Whitehead, and Clive Bell. Later, in ""Crome Yellow"" (1921) he caricatured the Garsington lifestyle. Jobs were very scarce, but in 1919 John Middleton Murry was reorganising the ""Athenaeum"" and invited Huxley to join the staff. He accepted immediately, and quickly married the"
"Workshops, and for the Hogarth Press, designing woodcuts. Carrington was not a member of the Bloomsbury Group, though she was closely associated with Bloomsbury and, more generally, with ""Bohemian"" attitudes, through her long relationship with the homosexual writer Lytton Strachey, whom she first met in 1916. Distinguished by her cropped pageboy hair style (before it was fashionable) and somewhat androgynous appearance, she was troubled by her sexuality; she is known to have had an affair with Henrietta Bingham. She also had a significant relationship with the writer Gerald Brenan. In his first novel ""Crome Yellow,"" Aldous Huxley based the character"
"Pizzolato, Michael Cisco, Ann K. Schwader, Robert M. Price, Galad Elflandsson and Charles Stross. Robert W. Chambers Robert William Chambers (May 26, 1865 – December 16, 1933) was an American artist and fiction writer, best known for his book of short stories entitled ""The King in Yellow"", published in 1895. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, to William P. Chambers (1827–1911), a corporate and bankruptcy lawyer, and Caroline Smith Boughton (1842-1913). His parents met when Caroline was twelve years old and William P. was interning with her father, Joseph Boughton, a prominent corporate lawyer. Eventually the two formed the"
"the world of letters and had become internationally famous through his novels ""Crome Yellow"", ""Antic Hay"" and his dystopian novel ""Brave New World"". His experiments with psychedelic drugs (initially mescaline) and his descriptions of them in his writings did much to spread awareness of psychedelic drugs to the general public and arguably helped to glamorize their recreational use, although Huxley himself treated them very seriously. Huxley was introduced to psychedelic drugs in 1953 by a friend, psychiatrist Humphry Osmond. Osmond had become interested in hallucinogens and their relationship to mental illness in the 1940s. During the 1950s, he completed extensive"
"the fragments are Sir Amery Wendy-Smith and Gordon Walmsley. Both of these scholars died in Lumley's works: Sir Amery in ""Cement Surroundings"" (1969) and Walmsley in ""In the Vaults Beneath"" (1971). ""The King in Yellow"" is a widely censored play. Its author is unknown, and is believed to have committed suicide after publishing it in 1889. The play is named after a mysterious supernatural figure featured in it, who is connected to a peculiar alien symbol, usually wrought in gold, called the Yellow Sign. Though the first act is said to be ""innocent"", all who read the play's second act"
"Yellow (2006 short film) Yellow or Adicolor Yellow is a 2006 futuristic short film by director Neill Blomkamp, written by Terri Tatchell and Blomkamp. It was produced at the request of sportswear maker Adidas as a part of its ""Adicolor"" viral ads campaign, in which advertising agency IDEALOGUE gathered seven directors, assigning a different color to each of them, and asked them to produce a feature based on their emotional and creative response to the given color, later to be distributed in the form of podcasts. The four-minute film, shot by Trent Opaloch in Blomkamp's usual handheld camera mockumentary style,"
"his portrayal in Aldous Huxley's novel ""Crome Yellow"" and by the publication of the first volume of Margot's memoirs, which sold well in the UK and the USA, but were thought an undignified way for a former Prime Minister to make money. On 13 September 1922 Sir Donald Maclean told Harold Laski that Asquith was devoted to bridge and small talk and did not do enough real work. Asquith was increasingly attracted by the thought of making money from writing, with Churchill doing very well from his ""The World Crisis"" and Lloyd George rumoured to be being paid handsomely for"
"Chrome yellow Chrome yellow is lead(II) chromate (PbCrO). It occurs naturally as the mineral crocoite but the mineral itself was never used as a pigment for paint. After the French chemist Louis Vauquelin discovered the new element chromium in 1797 lead chromate was synthesized in the laboratory and its use as a pigment began in the second decade of the nineteenth century. Chrome yellow had been commonly produced by mixing solutions of lead nitrate and potassium chromate and filtering off the lead chromate precipitate. Because the pigment tends to react with hydrogen sulfide and darken on exposure to air over"
"Public house in Selsdon was named after him as he was one of the main backers of the Selsdon Wood Nature Reserve. Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) was a novelist and philosopher. His styles were iconoclasm; disenchanted social commentary and a dystopic view of the future were repeated themes. He was regarded in California, where he spent the latter part of his life, as a considerable intellectual guru. His main works include ""Crome Yellow"" (1921), ""Antic Hay"" (1923), ""Brave New World"" (1932), which began as a parody of ""Men Like Gods"" by H.G. Wells, ""Eyeless in Gaza"" (1936) and ""Island"" (1960). ""Island"","
"Robert W. Chambers Robert William Chambers (May 26, 1865 – December 16, 1933) was an American artist and fiction writer, best known for his book of short stories entitled ""The King in Yellow"", published in 1895. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, to William P. Chambers (1827–1911), a corporate and bankruptcy lawyer, and Caroline Smith Boughton (1842-1913). His parents met when Caroline was twelve years old and William P. was interning with her father, Joseph Boughton, a prominent corporate lawyer. Eventually the two formed the law firm of Chambers and Boughton which continued to prosper even after Joseph's death"
"or ""Lock Haven Yellow"" in aviation circles, from the Piper factory that existed in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, where it was made in the 1930s and during World War II. Chrome yellow Chrome yellow is lead(II) chromate (PbCrO). It occurs naturally as the mineral crocoite but the mineral itself was never used as a pigment for paint. After the French chemist Louis Vauquelin discovered the new element chromium in 1797 lead chromate was synthesized in the laboratory and its use as a pigment began in the second decade of the nineteenth century. Chrome yellow had been commonly produced by mixing solutions"
"of All Worlds""), an allusion to an expression used by the philosopher Gottfried Leibniz and satirised in ""Candide, Ou l'Optimisme"" by Voltaire (1759). Huxley wrote ""Brave New World"" while living in Sanary-sur-Mer, France, in the four months from May to August 1931. By this time, Huxley had already established himself as a writer and social satirist. He was a contributor to ""Vanity Fair"" and ""Vogue"" magazines, and had published a collection of his poetry (""The Burning Wheel"", 1916) and four successful satirical novels: ""Crome Yellow"" (1921), ""Antic Hay"" (1923), ""Those Barren Leaves"" (1925), and ""Point Counter Point"" (1928). ""Brave New"
"The Adventure of the Yellow Face ""The Adventure of the Yellow Face"", one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the third tale from ""The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes"". It was first published in ""Strand Magazine"" in 1893 with original illustrations by Sidney Paget. One of Doyle's sentimental pieces, the story is remarkable in that Holmes' deduction during the course of it proves incorrect. According to Dr. Watson; ""...where he failed it happened too often that no one else succeeded... Now and again, however, it chanced that even when he erred"
"Lawrence, Siegfried Sassoon, Lytton Strachey, Aldous Huxley, Mark Gertler, and Bertrand Russell. In 1916, they invited conscientious objectors, including Clive Bell and other members of the Bloomsbury Group, to come and work on the home farm for the duration of World War I, as civilian Work of National Importance recognised as an alternative to military service . Aldous Huxley spent some time here before he wrote ""Crome Yellow"", a book which contains a ridiculous character obviously intended as a caricature of Lady Ottoline Morrell; she never forgave him. ""In Confidence"" a short story by Katherine Mansfield portrays the ""wits of"
"of short stories ""The King in Yellow"", which centers on a mysterious and disturbing play in book form, Lovecraft is not believed to have read that work until 1927. Donald R. Burleson has argued that the idea for the book was derived from Nathaniel Hawthorne, though Lovecraft himself noted that ""mouldy hidden manuscripts"" were one of the stock features of Gothic literature. Lovecraft wrote that the title, as translated from the Greek language, meant ""an image of the law of the dead"", compounded respectively from ""nekros"" ""dead"", ""nomos"" ""law"", and ""eikon"" ""image"". Robert M. Price notes that the title has"
"The Yellow ""M"" The Yellow ""M"" ( (""The Yellow Mark"")) by the Belgian artist Edgar P. Jacobs is the sixth comic book in the ""Blake and Mortimer"" series. It was first published in ""Tintin"" magazine between 6 August 1953 and 3 November 1954 and later appeared in book form in 1956. For some time now London has been terrorized by an enigmatic villain who informs the press in advance of his crimes. He commits daring robberies and leaves behind an ""M"" in a yellow circle as a signature. When the Imperial State Crown is stolen from the Tower of London,"
"Photography. Visual effects were done by Blomkamp's own VFX company Ratel. The score was written by Gary Pozner. The film includes actors Julien Phipps, Giddon Karmel, Jason Bell, Jason Lee, Bob Dong, Hamish Cameron and Irene Astle. Yellow (2006 short film) Yellow or Adicolor Yellow is a 2006 futuristic short film by director Neill Blomkamp, written by Terri Tatchell and Blomkamp. It was produced at the request of sportswear maker Adidas as a part of its ""Adicolor"" viral ads campaign, in which advertising agency IDEALOGUE gathered seven directors, assigning a different color to each of them, and asked them to"
"advance of ""Crome Yellow"", and wittier than Huxley according to Mansfield's biographer Antony Alpers. Published in ""The New Age"" of 24 May 1917, it was not reprinted until 1984 in Alpers' collection of her short stories. Five young gentlemen are having a drawing-room argument, observed by Isobel and Marigold: ""Aren't men extraordinary"" says Marigold. Non-literary portraits are also part of this interesting legacy, for example, as seen in the artistic photographs of her by Cecil Beaton. There are portraits by Henry Lamb, Duncan Grant, Augustus John, and others. Carolyn Heilbrun edited ""Lady Ottoline's Album"" (1976), a collection of snapshots and"
"red."" In April 1939, Dr. Frank W. Cyr, a professor at Teachers College, Columbia University in New York organized a conference that established national school-bus construction standards for the U.S., including the standard color of yellow for the school bus. It became known officially as ""National School Bus Chrome"". The color was selected because black lettering on that hue was easiest to see in the semi-darkness of early morning. The conference met for seven days and the attendees created a total of 44 standards, including specifications regarding body length, ceiling height and aisle width. Paint experts from DuPont and Pittsburgh"
"either go mad or suffer another terrible fate. Its setting and events include mysterious places and entities such as Carcosa, Hastur, and the Lake of Hali, names that Chambers borrowed from the writings of Ambrose Bierce. The play was first imagined in a collection of short stories by Robert W. Chambers also named ""The King in Yellow"", published in 1895 and set in a hypothetical year 1920. Lovecraft was a fan of the book and included references to the Lake of Hali and the Yellow Sign in his short story ""The Whisperer in Darkness"" (1930). August Derleth later expanded on"
"of the English Murder"" - George Orwell 80. ""Why Look at Animals?"" - John Berger All books in this series feature orange as the spot colour. 81. ""The Tao of Nature"" - Chuang Tzu 82. ""Of Human Freedom"" - Epictetus 83. ""On Conspiracies"" - Niccolò Machiavelli 84. ""Meditations"" - René Descartes 85. ""Dialogue Between Fashion and Death"" - Giacomo Leopardi 86. ""On Liberty"" - John Stuart Mill 87. ""Hosts of Living Forms"" - Charles Darwin 88. ""Night Walks"" - Charles Dickens 89. ""Some Extraordinary Popular Delusions"" - Charles Mackay 90. ""The State as a Work of Art"" - Jacob Burckhardt"
"the ""Classical Dictionary"", and also his father, Charles Lemprière. The rest of the story is fiction. It is possible that the poet Tony Harrison makes reference to Lemprière in his poem ""A Kumquat for John Keats"" in the line ""Flora asphyxiated by foul air / unknown to Keats or Lemprière"" – as he would have been a contemporary of John Keats. The character Mr. Scogan expresses his admiration for Lemprière's work as a biographer and lexicographer in Aldous Huxley's novel ""Crome Yellow"" (ch. XIV). In George Orwell's ""Keep The Aspidistra Flying"" there is """"You'll find it in Lempriere"""" snark remark"
"Charlotte Perkins Gilman Charlotte Perkins Gilman (); also Charlotte Perkins Stetson (July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935), was a prominent American humanist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform. She was a utopian feminist and served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle. She has been inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. Her best remembered work today is her semi-autobiographical short story ""The Yellow Wallpaper"", which she wrote after a severe bout of postpartum psychosis. Gilman was born on July 3,"
"series of cheap paperback mystery novels with yellow covers that were popular in post-fascist Italy. The term ""giallo"" (""yellow"") derives from a series of crime-mystery pulp novels entitled ""Il Giallo Mondadori"" (""Mondadori Yellow""), published by Mondadori from 1929 and taking its name from the trademark yellow cover background. The series consisted almost exclusively of Italian translations of mystery novels by British and American writers. These included Agatha Christie, Ellery Queen, Edgar Wallace, Ed McBain, Rex Stout and Raymond Chandler. Published as cheap paperbacks, the success of the ""giallo"" novels soon began attracting the attention of other Italian publishing houses. They"
"used as plot points in The Lying Detective. The Adventure of the Yellow Face ""The Adventure of the Yellow Face"", one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the third tale from ""The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes"". It was first published in ""Strand Magazine"" in 1893 with original illustrations by Sidney Paget. One of Doyle's sentimental pieces, the story is remarkable in that Holmes' deduction during the course of it proves incorrect. According to Dr. Watson; ""...where he failed it happened too often that no one else succeeded... Now and again,"
"James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the 20th century. Joyce is best known for ""Ulysses"" (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's ""Odyssey"" are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, most famously stream of consciousness. Other well-known works are the short-story collection ""Dubliners"" (1914), and the novels ""A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"" (1916) and ""Finnegans Wake"" (1939)."
"The King in Yellow The King in Yellow is a book of short stories by American writer Robert W. Chambers, first published by F. Tennyson Neely in 1895. The book is named after a play with the same title which recurs as a motif through some of the stories. The first half of the book features highly esteemed weird stories, and the book has been described by critics such as E. F. Bleiler, S. T. Joshi and T. E. D. Klein as a classic in the field of the supernatural. There are ten stories, the first four of which (""The"
"the Yellow Room""), was written in 1907 by French journalist and author Gaston Leroux; it, too, has had many imitators. In the Golden Age of Detective Fiction impossible crimes were mainly solved by brilliant amateur sleuths, inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes, who were inexplicably given free rein by Scotland Yard and, to a markedly lesser extent in their American equivalents, the New York Police Department; puzzling mysteries were solved by sheer reasoning and brain power. Such creators of famous Anglo-Saxon amateur detectives as Jacques Futrelle, Thomas and Mary Hanshew, G. K. Chesterton, Carolyn Wells, John Dickson Carr,"
"""The King in Yellow"" (1895) and Thomas Ligotti. Allusions to ""The King in Yellow"" can be observed in the show's dark philosophy, its recurring use of ""Carcosa"" and ""The Yellow King"" as motifs throughout the series, and its symbolic use of yellow as a thematic signature that signifies insanity and decadence. Pizzolatto was accused of plagiarizing Ligotti because of close similarities between lines in ""True Detective"" and text from Ligotti's nonfiction book ""The Conspiracy Against the Human Race"" (2010)—accusations Pizzolatto denied, while acknowledging Ligotti's influence. Other philosophers and writers identified as influences include Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze, Ray"
"the most well known of these novels were ""White or Yellow? A Story of the Race War of AD 1908"" (1888) by journalist William Lane, ""The Yellow Wave"" (1895) by Kenneth Mackay and ""The Australian Crisis"" (1909) by Charles H. Kirmess (possibly a pseudonym for another Australian author Frank Fox). Each of these novels contained two major common themes which were a reflection of the fears and concerns within a contemporary Australian context; the Australian continent was at risk of major invasion from a strong Asian power (ie. China or Japan, sometimes with the assistance of the Russian Empire) and"
"A Colour Symphony A Colour Symphony, Op. 24, F. 106, was written by Arthur Bliss in 1921–22. It was his first major work for orchestra and remains one of his best known compositions. The symphony is scored for 3 flutes (one doubling on piccolo), 2 oboes, cor anglais, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, double bassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, 2 tympanists, cymbals, 2 harps and strings. ""A Colour Symphony"" was written to be performed at the Three Choirs Festival, held in 1922 in Gloucester, at the invitation of Sir Edward Elgar, who also invited Herbert Howells"
"time, forming lead sulfide, and it contains lead, a toxic, heavy metal, and the toxic and carcinogenic chromate as well it was originally replaced by another pigment, cadmium yellow (mixed with enough cadmium orange to produce a color equivalent to chrome yellow).Darkening may occur as well by reduction with sulfur dioxide. Good quality pigments have been coated to inhibit contact with gases that can change their colour The first recorded use of ""chrome yellow"" as a color name in English was in 1818. The Piper J-3 Cub aircraft had chrome yellow as its standard overall color, usually called ""Cub Yellow"""