Kingsley Amis

Author : Kingsley Amis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-09
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781608193165

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Everyday Drinking by Kingsley Amis Pdf

Here is the beloved, bestselling compendium of Kingsley Amis's wisdom on the cherished subject of drinking. Along with a series of well-tested recipes (including a cocktail called the Lucky Jim) the book includes Amis's musings on The Hangover, The Boozing Man's Diet, The Mean Sod's Guide, and (presumably as a matter of speculation) How Not to Get Drunk-all leavened with fun quizzes on the making and drinking of alcohol all over the world. Mixing practical know-how and hilarious opinionation, this is a delightful cocktail of wry humor and distilled knowledge, served by one of our great gimlet wits.

Author : Kingsley Amis
Publisher : Viking
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : College teachers
ISBN : 0241956846

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Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis Pdf

'Lucky Jim' is the tale of university lecturer Jim Dixon who has to navigate the stumbling blocks of life at a red brick university, as he attempts to climb the social ladder to a moderately successful future.

Author : Kingsley Amis
Publisher : Random House
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446414699

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The Alteration by Kingsley Amis Pdf

Hubert Anvil is a 10 year old boy blessed with the voice of an angel. The Church hierarchy decrees that Hubert should be turned into a castrato - an alteration that could bring Hubert fame and fortune, but would also cut him off from an adult world he is curious to discover. In a dystopian world where Martin Luther never reformed and where the Holy Office's power is absolute, where will Hubert turn if he decides to defy their wishes?

Author : Zachary Leader
Publisher : Miramax Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001-11-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0786867574

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The Letters of Kingsley Amis by Zachary Leader Pdf

In 1954, Kingsley Amis grabbed the attention of the literary world as one of the Angry Young Men with his first novel Lucky Jim. He maintained a public image of blistering intelligence, savage wit, and belligerent fierceness of opinion until his death in 1995. In his letters, he confirms the legendary aspects of his reputation, and much more. This collection contains more than eight hundred letters that divulge the secrets of the artist and the man, with an honesty and immediacy rare in any biography or memoir. Amis, so assured in his pronouncements on fellow writers, grapples privately with fears, self-doubts, ambitions, and personal disasters. He is wildly funny, indulging in mordant gossip and astonishing frankness with his intimate friends and lovers. Some letters are dashed off with signature frustration; others are written with painstaking and painful circumspection. They make vivid the triumphs and tumult of his life and his times, from post-war Britain through the Thatcher era, as well as his attractions to women, jazz, drink, and the comic possibilities of the English language. As an intellectual pugilist who took no prisoners, Kingsley Amis had few peers. These letters, at times scandalous, at times tragic, reinforce his historical relevance and literary stature.

Author : Kingsley Amis
Publisher : Random House
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446419847

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You Can't Do Both by Kingsley Amis Pdf

Robin Davies knows how to look after number one. Raised in a bland suburb of South London in the 1930s, Robin longs for the freedom to do what he wants. When he escapes to study in Oxford, he meets Nancy Bennett, a young woman even less worldly than himself. As Robin stumbles through his rites of passage to adulthood, involving rebellion, self-discovery, sex, war, seduction and the threat of commitment, we come to realise just how far he will go to have his cake and eat it.

Author : Merritt Moseley
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0872498611

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Understanding Kingsley Amis by Merritt Moseley Pdf

Author : David Lodge
Publisher : Random House
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781448137794

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The Art of Fiction by David Lodge Pdf

In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James, Martin Amis, Jane Austen and James Joyce. Looking at ideas such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Magic Realism and Symbolism, and illustrating each topic with a passage taken from a classic or modern novel, David Lodge makes the richness and variety of British and American fiction accessible to the general reader. He provides essential reading for students, aspiring writers and anyone who wants to understand how fiction works.

Author : Kingsley Amis
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141961798

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Ending Up by Kingsley Amis Pdf

At Tuppenny-hapenny Cottage in the English countryside, five elderly people live together in rancorous disharmony. Adela Bastable bosses the house, as her brother Bernard passes his days thinking up malicious schemes against the baby-talking Marigold and secret drinker Shorty, while kindly George lies bedridden upstairs. The mismatched quintet keep their spirits alive by bickering and waiting for grandchildren to visit at Christmas. But the festive season does not herald goodwill to all at Tuppenny-hapenny Cottage. Disaster and chaos, it seems, are just around the corner ... Told with Amis's piercing wit and humanity, Ending Up (1974) is a wickedly funny black comedy of the indignities of old age. With a new introduction by Helen Dunmore.

Author : Zachary Leader
Publisher : Random House
Page : 1034 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781446418161

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The Life of Kingsley Amis by Zachary Leader Pdf

In this authorised biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but a dominant figure in post-war British writing, as novelist, poet, critic and polemicist. Drawing not only on interviews with a range of Amis's friends, relatives, fellow writers, students and colleagues, many of them never before consulted, but also on hundreds of previously unpublished letters, Leader's biography will for the first time give a full picture of Amis's childhood, school days, life as a teacher, critic, political and cultural commentator, professional author, husband, father and lover. He explores Amis's fears and phobias, and the role that drink played in his life. And of course he pays due attention to Amis's work. As the editor of The Letters of Kingsley Amis, hailed in The Sunday Telegraph as 'one of the last major monuments to the epistolary art', Leader is more than qualified to be his authorised biographer. His book will surprise, entertain and illuminate.

Author : Kingsley Amis
Publisher : Random House
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446414620

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The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis Pdf

Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one main ambition left in life: to drink Wales dry. But their routine is both shaken and stirred when they are joined by professional Welshman Alun Weaver (CBE) and his wife, Rhiannon.

Author : Kingsley Amis
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590176894

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One Fat Englishman by Kingsley Amis Pdf

The hero of One Fat Englishman, a literary publisher and lapsed Catholic escaped from the pages of Graham Greene to the campus of Budweiser College in provincial Pennsylvania, is philandering, drunken, bigoted, and very very fat, not to mention in a state of continuous spluttering rage against everything, not least his own overgrown self. In America, Roger Micheldene must deal with not so obliging suburban housewives, aspiring Jewish novelists who as good as clean his clock, stray deer, bad cigars, children who beat him at Scrabble (“It was no wonder that people were horrible when they started life as children”), and America itself, while making ever-more desperate and humiliating overtures to Helen, a Scandinavian ice queen. If only Roger would dare to show some real feeling of his own. This comic masterpiece—about the 1950s crashing drunkenly into the consumerist 1960s and a final scion of a disintegrating Old World empire encountering its upstart New World offspring—is one of Kingsley Amis’s greatest and most caustic performances.

Author : Eric Jacobs
Publisher : St Martins Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0312186029

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Kingsley Amis by Eric Jacobs Pdf

Explores not only Amis's literary works but his outspoken personality, his praise for Thatcherism, and his devotion to whiskey

Author : Wendy Cope
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571259410

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Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis by Wendy Cope Pdf

When Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis was first published, it catapulted its author into the bestseller lists and established her as one of our funniest and most eloquent poets. There are so many kinds of awful men - One can't avoid them all. She often said She'd never make the same mistake again: She always made a new mistake instead. (from 'Rondeau Redoublé')

Author : Andrew James
Publisher : McGill-Queen's University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780773588332

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Kingsley Amis by Andrew James Pdf

While it has become commonplace to discount British novelist Kingsley Amis as a "naïve realist," a mere comedic novelist, even a misogynist and failed moralist, Andrew James argues that Amis was seriously concerned with the role of the artist in society and explored this subject in many of his novels. Throughout the first twenty years of his career, Amis used bad artists as whimsical characters, or antimodels, that helped identify his artistic preferences and fictional techniques. He became convinced that the relationship between an artist and his audience was reciprocal and that both the outer audience and the artist's inner circle must be held accountable for the production of bad literature. During the last twenty years of his career, Amis no longer concerned himself with satirizing bad artists, but instead explored ways of ameliorating them. James shows that the development of antimodels as fully drawn characters and Amis's insistence upon reciprocity in the writer-reader relationship demonstrate that he was more than just a comedic writer, and was aware of himself as an artist with social responsibilities. The first study of Amis to analyze manuscript revisions in all of his novel drafts, Kingsley Amis: Antimodels and the Audience shows the more serious side of a complex writer who has yet to receive the critical recognition he deserves.

Author : Richard Bradford
Publisher : Northcote House Pub Limited
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780746308585

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Kingsley Amis by Richard Bradford Pdf

Since the 1950s Kingsley Amis has been one of the most popular novelists in Britain. This book shows us the real Amis. Amis's novels remind us that fiction can be as engaging and immediate as television and film, but also that the medium of language is more effective than either of these in its ability to consume our anxieties, doubts and pleasures.