A romantic friendship: The letters of Cyril Connolly to Noel Blakiston

CONNOLLY, Cyril

Constable

Critical and autobiographical essays by a noted British reviewer and literary journalist. "[Connolly] has the wonderful capacity for enthusiasm, for exciting in us his own unflagging joy in the presence of genius"(New Yorker). Index.

The evening colonnade

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

Harcourt, Brace. Jovanovich

Critical and autobiographical essays by a noted British reviewer and literary journalist. "[Connolly] has the wonderful capacity for enthusiasm, for exciting in us his own unflagging joy in the presence of genius"(New Yorker). Index.

The Evening Colonnade

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Mariner Books

The Rock Pool (20th Century Classics)

Contemporary

Persea Books, Incorporated

“Whom the gods wish to destroy,” writes Cyril Connolly, “they first call promising.” First published in 1938 and long out of print, Enemies of Promise, an “inquiry into the problem of how to write a book that lasts ten years,” tests the boundaries of criticism, journalism, and autobiography with the blistering prose that became Connolly’s trademark. Connolly here confronts the evils of domesticity, politics, drink, and advertising as well as novelists such as Joyce, Proust, Hemingway, and Faulkner in essays that remain fresh and penetrating to this day. “A fine critic, compulsive traveler, and candid autobiographer. . . . [Connolly] lays down the law for all writers who wanted to count. . . . He had imagination and decisive images flashed with the speed of wit in his mind.”—V. S. Pritchett, New York Review of Books “Anyone who writes, or wants to write, will find something on just about every single page that either endorses a long-held prejudice or outrages, and that makes it a pretty compelling read. . . . You end up muttering back at just about every ornately constructed pensée that Connolly utters, but that’s one of the joys of this book.”—Nick Hornby, The Believer “A remarkable book.”—Anthony Powell

Enemies of Promise

University of Chicago Press

The author describes his school days at Eton and evaluates the work of Joyce, Proust, Woolf, Huxley, Hemingway, and Faulkner

Enemies of promise

Deutsch

Cyril Connolly was one of the most influential literary critics of the last century. He burst onto the artistic scene during the 30s with the instant classic Enemies of Promise; and his reputation was sealed by The Unquiet Grave, a strange and darkly hypnotic wartime work. A man of stormy emotions, famous for his love affairs, Cyril Connolly was a pivotal figure in English letters, and this is a collection to relish.

Selected Works Of Cyril Connolly, Vol. 1: The Modern Movement

History & Criticism

MACMILLAN PUB. LTD.

Les Pavillons of the Eighteenth Century

Zerbe, Jerome

Norton

The Unquiet Grave

This enduring classic is "a book which, no matter how many readers it will ever have, will never have enough" (Ernest Hemingway). Cyril Connolly (1903-1974) was one of the most influential book reviewers and critics in England, contributing regularly to The New Statesmen, The Observer, and The Sunday Times. His essays have been collected in book form and published to wide acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. The Unquiet Grave is considered by many to be his most enduring work. It is a highly personal journal written during the devastation of World War II, filled with reflective passages that deal with aging, the break-up of a long term relationship, and the horrors of the war around him. It is also a wonderfully varied intellectual feast: a collection of aphorisms, epigrams, and quotations from such masters of European literature as Horace, Baudelaire, Sainte-Beuve, Flaubert, and Goethe. Dazzlingly original in both form and content, The Unquiet Grave has continued to influence generations of writers.

Penguin??Books

A bizarre whodunit spoof about critics, editors, and writers asks the question--who killed famous writer Mortimer Gussage?

SHADE THOSE LAURELS

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Pantheon

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