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Palinurus (Cyril Connolly). First American edition (stated). Dust Jacket: Very Good. An unclipped jacket with original price $2.50 on inside flap. Hardcover: Very Good+ NY: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1945. Illustrated with black and white plates. Other than first American edition writing in pencil on flyleaf, no writing or markings in this well preserved edition, 152 pp.
"Connolly wrote this work under the pseudonym Palinurus. "Palinurus was the pilot of Aeneas's ship in Virgil's Aeneid, who fell overboard as an act of atonement to the angry gods, and whose spirit wandered in the underworld. Connolly uses the theme to explore his feelings and review his situation as he approaches the age of forty."
"The Unquiet Grave is a compilation of the "doubts and reflections of a year" on "art, love, nature and religion." Begun in 1940, "The Unquiet Grave," as Connolly reflected ten years later in the introduction to the revised edition, "is inevitably a war-book." Although it was an attempt "to extricate himself from the war…"
