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- catalog abstract "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).".
- catalog alternative "Essays. Selections".
- catalog contributor b257178.
- catalog contributor b257179.
- catalog contributor b257180.
- catalog contributor b257181.
- catalog contributor b257182.
- catalog coverage "London (England) Intellectual life.".
- catalog created "c1984.".
- catalog date "1984".
- catalog date "c1984.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1984.".
- catalog 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).".
- catalog description "[Introduction]: Cyril Connolly as critic / Peter Quennell -- I. Travel. The grand tour -- Revisiting Greece -- Bordeaux-Greece -- Hommage to Switzerland - Spring Revolution -- Impressions of Europe (1955) -- England not my England -- One of my Londons. II. Life & Literature. Distress of Plenty -- The ant-lion -- Writers & society, 1940-3 -- On re-reading Petronius -- The elegiac temperment -- In quest of rococo -- James Joyce: 1 -- James Joyce: 2-- James Joyce: 3 -- Farewell to surrealism -- Imitations of Horace -- Ninety years of novel reading -- More about the modern novel -- Oscar Wilde: 1 -- Oscar Wilde: 2 -- Living with lemurs -- Beyond believing. III. Satires & parodies. Felicity -- Felicity entertains -- Told in Gath -- Where eagles fear to tread -- Bond strikes camp.".
- catalog extent "ix, 307 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0892550724 :".
- catalog issued "1984".
- catalog issued "c1984.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Persea Books,".
- catalog spatial "London (England) Intellectual life.".
- catalog subject "Books Reviews.".
- catalog subject "English literature History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PR6005.O393 A6 1984".
- catalog tableOfContents "[Introduction]: Cyril Connolly as critic / Peter Quennell -- I. Travel. The grand tour -- Revisiting Greece -- Bordeaux-Greece -- Hommage to Switzerland - Spring Revolution -- Impressions of Europe (1955) -- England not my England -- One of my Londons. II. Life & Literature. Distress of Plenty -- The ant-lion -- Writers & society, 1940-3 -- On re-reading Petronius -- The elegiac temperment -- In quest of rococo -- James Joyce: 1 -- James Joyce: 2-- James Joyce: 3 -- Farewell to surrealism -- Imitations of Horace -- Ninety years of novel reading -- More about the modern novel -- Oscar Wilde: 1 -- Oscar Wilde: 2 -- Living with lemurs -- Beyond believing. III. Satires & parodies. Felicity -- Felicity entertains -- Told in Gath -- Where eagles fear to tread -- Bond strikes camp.".
- catalog title "Essays. Selections".
- catalog title "The selected essays of Cyril Connolly / edited and with an introduction by Peter Quennell.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "Reviews. fast".
- catalog type "text".