| Synopsis: |
It is the story of a house party at "Crome", a lightly veiled reference to Garsington Manor, home of Lady Ottoline Morrell, a house where authors such as Huxley and T. S. Eliot used to gather and write. The reader hears the history of the house from Henry Wimbush, its owner and self-appointed historian; apocalypse is prophesied, virginity is lost, and inspirational aphorisms are gained in a trance. The hero, Denis Stone, tries to capture it all in poetry and is disappointed in love. |