Cyril Connolly's 100 Key Books of the Modern Movement

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"In 1965 Cyril Connolly published The Modern Movement, 100 [sic] Key Books from England, France and America, 1880-1950. These books, in his opinion, best illustrated the spirit of the modern movement show more which "dawned with Flaubert and Baudelaire, reached its zenith early in the century and only became past history in the fifties - if it has become past history." The list is limited to French , English and American literature because, as Connolly put it "without knowing German or Russian, I cannot absolutely judge a book from translation, however perfect..."" http://home.comcast.net/~dwtaylor1/connolly.html show less
Years:
All, 1949 (1), 1948 (2), 1947 (1), 1946 (1), 1945 (1), 1943 (1), 1942 (1), 1941 (2), 1940 (3), 1939 (3), 1938 (1), 1936 (2), 1935 (1), 1934 (3), 1933 (2), 1932 (4), 1931 (4), 1930 (3), 1929 (7), 1928 (4), 1927 (1), 1926 (5), 1925 (1), 1924 (2), 1923 (4), 1922 (5), 1921 (2), 1920 (2), 1918 (5), 1917 (3), 1916 (2), 1915 (1), 1914 (2), 1913 (3), 1911 (1), 1907 (3), 1906 (1), 1903 (1), 1902 (2), 1899 (1), 1896 (1), 1891 (1), 1887 (2), 1886 (1), 1885 (1), 1884 (1), 1883 (1), 1881 (1), 1880 (1)
WorkYear
1984 by George Orwell
1949
John Betjeman Selected Poems by John Betjeman
1948
The Pisan Cantos by Ezra Pound
1948
The Plague by Albert Camus
1947
Deaths and Entrances by Dylan Thomas
1946
Animal Farm by George Orwell
1945
Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot
1943
Ruins and Visions: Poems 1934–1942 by Stephen Spender
1942
The Stranger by Albert Camus
1941
Au Pays de la Magie (French Poets) by Henri Michaux
1941
Another Time by W. H. Auden
1940
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
1940
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
1940
Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
1939
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
1939
Autumn journal : a poem by Louis MacNeice
1939
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
1938
Ailleurs : Voyage en Grande Garabagne - Au pays de la Magie - Ici, Poddema by Henri Michaux
1936
Twenty-five poems by Dylan Thomas
1936
Selected Poems by Marianne Moore
1935
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1934
The Art of the Novel: Critical Prefaces by Henry James
1934
18 Poems by Dylan Thomas
1934
Man's Fate by André Malraux
1933
Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West
1933
The Orators: An English Study by W. H. Auden
1932
Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
1932
Selected Essays by T. S. Eliot
1932
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
1932
Sanctuary by William Faulkner
1931
Night Flight by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
1931
Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 by Edmund Wilson
1931
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
1931
The Bridge by Hart Crane
1930
A Draft of XXX Cantos by Ezra Pound
1930
Collected Poems by Edith Sitwell
1930
The Holy Terrors by Jean Cocteau
1929
Brothers and Sisters by Ivy Compton-Burnett
1929
Ash Wednesday by T. S. Eliot
1929
Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography by Robert Graves
1929
Living by Henry Green
1929
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
1929
The Winding Stair and Other Poems: A Facsimile Edition by William Butler Yeats
1929
Nadja by André Breton
1928
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
1928
Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
1928
The Tower by W. B. Yeats
1928
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
1927
Is 5 by E. E. Cummings
1926
If It Die by André Gide
1926
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
1926
The Casuarina Tree by W. Somerset Maugham
1926
Turbott Wolfe by William Plomer
1926
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1925
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
1924
In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
1924
Tulips and Chimneys by E. E. Cummings
1923
The Flower Beneath the Foot by Ronald Firbank
1923
The Devil in the Flesh by Raymond Radiguet
1923
Harmonium by Wallace Stevens
1923
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
1922
Ulysses by James Joyce
1922
The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield
1922
Charmes by Paul Valéry
1922
Later poems by W. B. Yeats
1922
Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
1921
Sea and Sardinia by D. H. Lawrence
1921
The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen by Wilfred Owen
1920
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley by Ezra Pound
1920
Calligrammes by Guillaume Apollinaire
1918
The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Gerard Manley Hopkins
1918
Tarr by Wyndham Lewis
1918
Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey
1918
170 Chinese Poems by Arthur Waley
1918
South Wind by Norman Douglas
1917
Prufrock and Other Observations by T. S. Eliot
1917
La jeune Parque by Paul Valéry
1917
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
1916
Lustra of Ezra Pound by Ezra Pound
1916
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
1915
Satires of Circumstance, lyrics and reveries with miscellaneous pieces by Thomas Hardy
1914
Responsibilities (Dodo Press) by W. B. Yeats
1914
Alcools by Guillaume Apollinaire
1913
Sons And Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
1913
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
1913
Siren Land by Norman Douglas
1911
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
1907
The Longest Journey by E. M. Forster
1907
The Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge
1907
Memoirs of My Dead Life by George Moore
1906
The Ambassadors by Henry James
1903
Youth by Joseph Conrad
1902
The Immoralist by André Gide
1902
The Awkward Age by Henry James
1899
King Ubu by Alfred Jarry
1896
La-Bas (Down There) by Joris-Karl Huysmans
1891
Pages from the Goncourt Journal by Edmond de Goncourt
1887
Poems by Stéphane Mallarmé
1887
Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud
1886
Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant
1885
Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans
1884
Cruel Tales by Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
1883
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
1881
Bouvard and Pécuchet by Gustave Flaubert
1880

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