Cyril Connolly, who attended Eaton with George Orwell and Oxford with Evelyn Waugh, spent his youth among the masters of the modern movement -- Pound, Eliot, Joyce, Gide, Huxley, Hemingway -- developing a literary sensibility that would lead him to found Horizon (for years the foremost literary magazine in England) and serve him well as chief among English reviewers for three decades. The Evening Colonnade is a collection of criticism dedicated to life, from a man whose life was dedicated to love and appreciation of the ...
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Cyril Connolly, who attended Eaton with George Orwell and Oxford with Evelyn Waugh, spent his youth among the masters of the modern movement -- Pound, Eliot, Joyce, Gide, Huxley, Hemingway -- developing a literary sensibility that would lead him to found Horizon (for years the foremost literary magazine in England) and serve him well as chief among English reviewers for three decades. The Evening Colonnade is a collection of criticism dedicated to life, from a man whose life was dedicated to love and appreciation of the best. Whether writing on Ezra Pound's silence, the decay of Venice, Baudelaire's Paris, Scott Fitzgerald dining with Edith Wharton, the nineties, the twenties of his school days, Voltaire, Mailer, Jung, Africa, or English country homes, Connolly's prose exemplifies a style that the American Academy celebrated as "warmly observant of everything human, with aphoristic elegance and kaleidoscopic profundity."
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NF in VG jacket. Blue cloth with silver titles to spine, in blue, blacvk and white illustrated glossy jacket, 8vo. 1st U. S/ edition. xix+469pp. Index. Criticism, literary essays and travel pieces. NF/VG. Book has light sunning to cloth along upper and lower edges and just onto adjacent boards; light shelving soil upper page edges. Else fine: bright, tight, sharp and unmarked. Jacket has light abrasion with small nicks and light shallow creases along creases along upper edgs and spine head. Full longitudinal and upper diagonal creases to front inner flap. Central colors, titles and figures bright and sharp. In Brodart. Not ex-lib.
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Fine in very good + jacket. 1975, First American Edition. Hardcover, with Dust Jacket. In Fine condition, in a Very Good+ Dust Jacket that shows light shelf wear. That jacket has been freshly enclosed in a new, archival, gloss Mylar jacket protector.