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Although he wrote and published from the late 1920s until the mid-1970s, Cyril Connolly is commonly associated with the 1930s and 1940s. As the editor of Horizon Connolly went on to produce one of the most stimulating periodicals of World War II and the immediate postwar years. Born from the idealistic idea of a renewal of the world and of letters, the journal maneuvered through left-wing politics, a disenchantment with Russia , and an equally thorough disappointment by the philistine attitude of the Labour government to culture.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

•  INTRODUCTION page xi I.
  
• THE POSITION OF JOYCE 1
  
•  Les Faux-Monnayeurs 16
  
• DISTRESS OF PLENTY 21
  
• NEW SWIFT LETTERS 27
  
• LORD CHESTERFIELD 31
  
•  IMITATIONS OF HORACE 36
  
• ILLUSIONS OF LIKENESS 41
  
• A. E. HOUSMAN: A CONTROVERSY 47
  
• THOMAS MANN 63
  
•  Onas Vallis Visionis 68
  
• FRENCH AND ENGLISH CULTURAL RELATIONS 76
• II. NINETY YEARS OF NOVEL REVIEWING 90
  
• MORE ABOUT THE MODERN NOVEL 96
  
• DEFECTS OF ENGLISH NOVELS 101
  
• REVIEWERS 104
•  MR. MOSSBROSS TAKES THE CLASS 106
  
• FELICITY 108
  
•  THE NOVEL-ADDICT'S CUPBOARD 112
•  FELICITY ENTERTAINS 119
  
• TOLD IN GATH 127
  
• WHERE ENGELS FEARS TO TREAD 136
  
• YEAR NINE 154
  
• WHAT WILL HE Do NEXT 160
  
• AN UNFORTUNATE VISIT 164
  
• ACKERMANN'S ENGLAND 169
•  III. SPRING REVOLUTION 174
  
• BARCELONA 180
  
• ENGLAND NOT MY ENGLAND 196
  
• CONVERSATIONS IN BERLIN 211
  
• THE FATE OF AN ELIZABETHAN 216
  
• A TYRANT OF TASTE 223
  
• PSYCHO-ANALYSIS 227
  
• THE ANT-LION 231
  
•  "1843" 237
  
•  THE ART OF BEING GOOD 250
  
• WRITERS AND SOCIETY, 1940-3

CONDITION: Hard Cover, dark blue cloth boards, lithographic plate of drawing of author, printed March 1946, Routledge London. 287 pages. Light bumping to corners of boards, clean within. No writing, no flaws of note.