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Cyril Connolly


Born
in Coventry, Warwickshire, England
September 10, 1903

Died
November 26, 1984

Genre
Literature & Fiction


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 (1963) and the Modern Movement (1965). Cyril Connolly died in 1974.

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Average rating: 3.9 · 1,773 ratings · 248 reviews · 124 distinct works • Similar authors
Enemies of Promise
3.81 avg rating — 218 ratings — published 1938 — 8 editions
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The Rock Pool
3.40 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 1947 — 22 editions
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3.88 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1945 — 13 editions
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Obra selecta
4.13 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions
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The Evening Colonnade
4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1973 — 11 editions
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100 key books of the Modern...
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The Selected Works Of Cyril...
4.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions
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Selected Works Of Cyril Con...
4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions
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Shade Those Laurels
3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1989 — 7 editions
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The Selected Essays
3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1984 — 3 editions
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“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."

[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]”
― Cyril Connolly
tags: faithfulness, popularity, populism, principles, standards, writing
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“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
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“Whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first call promising.”
― Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise
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