Cyril Connolly

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

A Word Cycle

The Unquiet Grave

The author describes his school days at Eton and evaluates the work of Joyce, Proust, Woolf, Huxley, Hemingway, and Faulkner

Enemies of Promise

A classic novel, first published in 1936, now back in print. In this engaging satire of the British upper class, a smug young literary man from Oxford joins an international group of artists and writers on the French Riviera, intending to study them as if they were aquatic organisms in a pool--with unexpected results.

The Rock Pool

Essays 1927-1944

The Condemned Playground

Palinurus

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Previous Convictions

G. D. E. Soar

One Hundred Key Books from English, France and America, 1880-1950

The Modern Movement

W. H. Auden

Evelyn Waugh

Patrick Leigh Fermor

Angus Wilson

Christopher Sykes

"This sparkling curiosity was inspired by Ian Fleming, who in 1962 had the intriguing idea of asking eminent British writers to comment on the deadly sins for the London Sunday Times. The result is a colletive display of wit, erudition, and common sense, as each author essays his or her assigned vice."--Cover.

The Seven Deadly Sins

Noel Blakiston

The Letters of Cyril Connolly to Noel Blakiston

A Romantic Friendship

A towering figure in the literary landscape for five decades, and one of the most astute and influential critics of the twentieth century, Cyril Connolly was infamous for his straight-talking, continuously engaging and utterly individual style. The Modern Movement is the first of two volumes of Cyril Connolly’s Selected Works, edited by his son, Matthew. Featuring the best of his critical essays, it charts the whole of his career, spanning his early thoughts on film, through an analysis of the impact of war on literature, to his writings on the Modernists, including Auden, Camus, Dylan Thomas and Beckett. A sparkling collection, The Modern Movement exemplifies the penetrating mind, the questioning spirit and the provocative views of a man who lived a life in letters and held a place at the very heart of the literary world that his work described. ‘An extraordinary stylist, and one who has aged remarkably well. You connect instantly, and with a bark of laughter’ Daily Telegraph ‘Crammed with his moaning and yearning, with a restless staring into the world and a gloomy relish at nearly all he sees’ New Statesman ‘Connolly may again prove to be salutary reading, now, in the bleak, mad days of this new century’ Spectator ‘Connolly’s humour is mordant, self-lacerating – and occasionally brave’ Independent

The modern movement. Volume one

The Selected Works of Cyril Connolly

The Missing Diplomats

Marée basse

In this engaging satire of the British upper class, a smug young literary man from Oxford joins an international group of artists and writers on the French Riviera, intending to study them as if they were aquatic organisms in a pool--with unexpected results. First published in 1936 by Jack Kahane's Obelisk Press.

“Whom the gods wish to destroy,” writes Cyril Connolly, “they first call promising.” First published in 1938 and long out of print, Enemies of Promise, an “inquiry into the problem of how to write a book that lasts ten years,” tests the boundaries of criticism, journalism, and autobiography with the blistering prose that became Connolly’s trademark. Connolly here confronts the evils of domesticity, politics, drink, and advertising as well as novelists such as Joyce, Proust, Hemingway, and Faulkner in essays that remain fresh and penetrating to this day. “A fine critic, compulsive traveler, and candid autobiographer. . . . [Connolly] lays down the law for all writers who wanted to count. . . . He had imagination and decisive images flashed with the speed of wit in his mind.”—V. S. Pritchett, New York Review of Books “Anyone who writes, or wants to write, will find something on just about every single page that either endorses a long-held prejudice or outrages, and that makes it a pretty compelling read. . . . You end up muttering back at just about every ornately constructed pensée that Connolly utters, but that’s one of the joys of this book.”—Nick Hornby, The Believer “A remarkable book.”—Anthony Powell

A Word Cycle by Palinurus

One Hundred Key Books from England, France, and America, 1880-1950

Louis Aragon

André Labarthe

préfaces d'André Labarthe et de Cyril Connolly ; et Les yeux d'Elsa : préface d'Aragon

Le crève-cœur

A Review of Literature and Art

Horizon

Cyril Connolly

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