Title: The selected essays of Cyril Connolly
First published: 1984
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).
Subjects: English literature, English wit and humor, Description and travel, History and criticism, Books, Reviews, Intellectual life
LC classification: PR6005.O393 A6 1984