The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus - Hardcover

Connolly, Cyril

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 089255410X ISBN 13: 9780892554102

Publisher: Persea, 2011

Synopsis

This enduring classic is "a book which, no matter how many readers it will ever have, will never have enough" (Ernest Hemingway).

Cyril Connolly (1903-1974) was one of the most influential book reviewers and critics in England, contributing regularly to The New Statesmen, The Observer, and The Sunday Times. His essays have been collected in book form and published to wide acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. The Unquiet Grave is considered by many to be his most enduring work. It is a highly personal journal written during the devastation of World War II, filled with reflective passages that deal with aging, the break-up of a long term relationship, and the horrors of the war around him. It is also a wonderfully varied intellectual feast: a collection of aphorisms, epigrams, and quotations from such masters of European literature as Horace, Baudelaire, Sainte-Beuve, Flaubert, and Goethe. Dazzlingly original in both form and content, The Unquiet Grave has continued to influence generations of writers.

About this title

About the Author:

Among Cyril Connolly's many books include The Unquiet Grave, Enemies of Promise, The Condemned Playground, Ideas and Places, The Modern Movement, and The Rock Pool.

Review:

I certainly haven t enjoyed anything [this year] more than The Unquiet Grave, by Cyril Connolly...I've loved it since I was a teenager and like always to have it to hand. -- Donna Tartt "

About this edition

• Publisher: Persea
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 089255410X
• ISBN 13: 9780892554102
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160