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‘Palinurus’, the author of this slim volume of essays that became a cult classic over the years, was the nom-de-plume of Cyril Connolly. The Unquiet Grave is most famous for containing his oft-quoted line about the pram in the hall being the enemy of promise, but there is a lot more to this book, which incidentally every chap should have on his or her bookshelf. Written during the devastation of World War II, it is filled with reflective passages that deal with ageing, the break-up of a long term relationship and the horrors of the war. 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. This is the second, revised edition from 1945.
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