The Selected Works of Cyril Connolly Volume Two: The Two Natures

The Selected Works of Cyril Connolly Volume Two: The Two Natures

by Cyril Connolly (Author)

Synopsis

Until his death in 1974, Cyril Connolly - celebrated essayist and critic at the core of the English creative scene - experienced a turbulent and sometimes troubled existence in both his professional and personal worlds.

Edited by his son, Matthew, The Two Natures is the second and final volume of Cyril Connolly's Selected Works, and contains The Unquiet Grave, his famous and passionate meditation on the achievements of European culture from ancient times to modern, penned during the Second World War. With an extract from his early masterpiece, Enemies of Promise - Connolly's frequently charming and occasionally horrifying account of his boyhood - and various travel essays, memoirs and satirical short stories, and concluding with his paean to poetry, The Two Natures is a glorious testament to a great literary life.

`Almost everything Connolly wrote was stylish and intelligent, informed and passionate . . . He's a writer for all seasons, for all readers' William Boyd

`Connolly was right to suggest that size, scale or breadth could never be a proper measure of a writer's worth. To find out what were - and are - do investigate further' Independent

`If Connolly requires a monument, open these volumes' Spectator

`Excitement is Connolly's legacy. A literal world surrounds us, and science overtakes us . . . But passion is not quite dead' New Statesman

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Picador
Published: 07 Nov 2003

ISBN 10: 0330486012
ISBN 13: 9780330486019

Author Bio
Cyril Connolly was born in Coventry in 1903 and educated at Eton and at Balliol College, Oxford. He began reviewing for the New Statesman in 1927 and continued to write there, intermittently, over the next twenty years. He also wrote for the Architectural Review (1932-34) and the Daily Telegraph (1935-36), among other publications. His first book, and only completed novel, The Rock Pool , was published in 1935. In 1939, with Peter Watson and Stephen Spender, he founded the literary magazine Horizon, which he edited until closing it in 1950. From 1942 to 1943 he was also the literary editor of the Observer. In 1951 he joined the staff of the Sunday Times and was a lead book reviewer there until his death in 1974.Cyril Connolly was appointed a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1947, a CBE and Companion of Literature in 1972, and an Honorary Member of the American Academy and National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1974.