Cyril Connolly





Cyril Connolly

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born
in Coventry, Warwickshire, The United Kingdom
September 10, 1903

died
November 26, 1984

gender
male

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About this author

Cyril Connolly was born in Coventry, Warwickshire in 1903. Educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford he was a regular contributor to the New Statesman in the 1930s.

Connolly also co-edited Horizon (1939-41) with Stephen Spender and later was literary editor of the The Observer. Books by Connolly include the novel, The Rock Pool (1938), the autobiographical, Enemies of Promise (1938) and The Unquiet Grave (1944), a collection of aphorisms, reflections and essays.

After the Second World War Connolly was the principal book reviewer of the Sunday Times. He also published several other books including The Condemned Playground (1945), Previous Convictions (1964) and the Modern Movement (1965). Cyril Connolly died in 1974.


Average rating: 3.91 · 306 ratings · 42 reviews · 19 distinct works · Similar authors
The Unquiet Grave: A Word C...
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 137 ratings — published 1945 — 6 editions
Enemies of Promise
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 1938 — 10 editions
The Rock Pool
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3.55 of 5 stars 3.55 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1947 — 8 editions
The Condemned Playground: E...
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1945 — 4 editions
The Evening Colonnade
4.43 of 5 stars 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings3 editions
Obra Selecta - Cyril Connolly
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Shade Those Laurels
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Cien Libros Clave Del Movim...
4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings4 editions
Selected Works Of Cyril Con...
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Les Pavillons
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1962 — 2 editions
More books by Cyril Connolly…
“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.”
Cyril Connolly

“There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another... It is when we begin to hurt those whom we love that the guilt with which we are born becomes intolerable, and since all those whom we love intensely and continuously grow part of us, and since we hate ourselves in them, so we torture ourselves and them together.”
Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus

“While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.”
Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus