The selected essays of Cyril Connolly
By: edited and with an introduction by Peter Quennell.
Contributors: Quennell, Peter, 1905-
Publisher: Persea Books
Published: 1984
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
Description: Cyril Connolly, best known for The Unquiet Grave and Enemies of Promise, was an essayist and parodist of genius, a literary journalist, editor of monthly magazine Horizon (1939-1950), book critic for the London Sunday Times from 1951, and nurturer of some of the finest writers of his time. The essays in this volume are selected from The Condemned Playground : Essays, 1927-1944 (1945), Ideas and Places (1953), and Previous Convictions (1963).
Notes: "A Stanley Moss book."