Cyril Connolly: Journal and Memoir

by David Pryce-Jones

This volume, including the journal Connolly kept from 1927 to 1938--part writer's notebook, part private reflection, and part gossip--gives an illuminating memoir of Connolly

304 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1983

About the author

David Eugene Henry Pryce-Jones (1936–2025) was a British conservative author, historian and political commentator.

Reviews

[C. B. · Rating 3 out of 5]

The first half of this book features a biographical sketch of Connolly's youth by Pryce-Jones; the second, Connolly's own journal kept between 1928 and 1937. Thus, this book provides an informative insight into Connolly's life in the 20s and 30s, and especially into his move away from homosexuality.

[James Dempsey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absorbed in one night. Immensely readable - if you are as taken by Connolly, his character and his coterie as I. Success as a novelist was his aim; though he was eclipsed by Orwell, a school contemporary, and by Waugh, an oxford friend; he knew both well, but denounced each of them before their fame had baked. I am enthralled by Connolly and his life and times; by his erudition, his ambition, and his ever ending miseries and misfortunes. 200 pages; easily scanned, I would much recommend.