The Condemned Playground (1945) is a volume of reprinted essays, reviews and other prose pieces by the English critic and literary journalist Cyril Connolly. It gathers a selection of his articles published between 1927, when at the age of twenty-three he had started working as a reviewer for the New Statesman and other magazines, and 1944, by which time he had entered his forties and was editing the leading monthly review Horizon. Most of these pieces are book reviews, but interspersed among them are some travel sketches, parodies, fragments of diary and memoir, and brief exercises in dystopian satire. The volume concludes with excerpts from Connolly’s editorial “Comment” pages from the …
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Citation: Baldick, Chris. "The Condemned Playground: Essays 1927-1944". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 23 August 2023 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=13637, accessed 30 September 2023.]