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Collected Poems by Kingsley Amis
Category: Poetry & Plays
The complete collection of Kingsley Amis's poems, as witty, scabrous and bracing as his celebrated novelsAlthough best known for his comic novels, Kingsley Amis wrote poetry throughout his career. Collected Poems spans subjects from nature and cricket to love, ageing and literature, brimming with his ch ...Show more
Complete Stories by Kingsley Amis
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The short stories of Kingsley Amis - the great master of post-war comic prose - are dark, playful, moving, surprising and extremely funny. This definitive collection gathers all Amis' short fiction in a single volume for the first time and encompasses five decades of storytelling. In 'The 2003 Claret', ...Show more
Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis by Kingsley Amis
Category: Food & Wine
Kingsley Amis's drink writing is better than anybody else's, ever. Esquire New in giftable hardcover, with an introduction by Christopher Hitchens-a collection of witty and deeply informed writings on wine, beer, and cocktails, from one of the all-time experts. Kingsley Amis was one of the great ...Show more
Girl, 20 by Kingsley Amis
Category: Classics
Douglas Yandell, a youngish music critic, is enlisted by Kitty Vandervane to keep an eye on her roving husband - the eminent conductor and would-be radical Sir Roy - as he embarks on yet another affair. Roy, meanwhile, wants Douglas as an alibi for his growing involvement with Sylvia, an unsuitably youn ...Show more
Jake's Thing (Vintage Classics) by Kingsley Amis
Category: Fiction
Jake Richardson, an Oxford don nearing sixty with a lifetime's lechery behind him, is in pursuit of his lost libido and heads off to the consulting room of a miniature sex therapist. Not one to disobey a doctor's orders, he runs the full humiliating gamut of sex labs and trendy 'workshops', where more t ...Show more
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis, Kingsley Amis
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Essentials
'His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as a mausoleum. During the night, too, he'd somehow been on a cross-country run and then been expertly beaten up by secret police. He felt bad'. Jix Dixon has a terrible job at a second-rate university. His life is full ...Show more
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis, Kingsley Amis
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons. As long as Jim can survive a madrigal-singing weekend at Professor Welch's, deliver a lecture on 'Merrie England' and resist Christine, the girlf ...Show more
Lucky Jim: Popular Penguins by Kingsley Amis
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
'His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as a mausoleum. During the night, too, he'd somehow been on a cross-country run and then been expertly beaten up by secret police. He felt bad.'Jix Dixon has a terrible job at a second-rate university. His life is full o ...Show more
Memoirs by Kingsley Amis
Category: Biography
"Endlessly entertaining-Good, rollicking stuff, and a delight to read -- Sir Kingsley Amis is surely one of the funniest men alive." --Auberon Waugh, Sunday Telegraph Elegant, provocative and hugely entertaining, Kingsley Amis's memoirs are filled with anecdotes, experiences and portraits of famous fri ...Show more
Raising a Smile: Selected Non-Fiction by Kingsley Amis
Category: Non-Fiction
This vast and hugely entertaining collection is vintage Amis from a succession of good years. All of his best non-fiction pieces have been gathered together to reveal Kingsley Amis at his most typically robust and incisive: cutting a swathe through such subjects as writers and writing, 'Abroad', eating ...Show more
Stanley and the Women by Kingsley Amis
Category: Classics
Just when Stanley Duke thinks it safe to sink into middle age, his son, Steve, goes insane. As if that weren't terrible enough, Stanley finds himself beset on all sides by women - neurotic, half-baked, critical or just plain capricious. As one by one they gnaw away at his composure, Stanley wonders whet ...Show more
The Alteration by Kingsley Amis
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
In Kingsley Amis's virtuoso foray into virtual history it is 1976 but the modern world is a medieval relic, frozen in intellectual and spiritual time ever since Martin Luther was promoted to pope back in the sixteenth century. Stephen the Third, the king of England, has just died, and Mass (Mozart's sec ...Show more