Cyril Connolly was one of the most influential literary critics of the last century. He burst onto the artistic scene during the 30s with the instant classic Enemies of Promise; and his reputation was sealed by The Unquiet Grave, a strange and darkly hypnotic wartime work. A man of stormy emotions, read more...

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 read more...