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Sir Kingsley William Amis CBE (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, short stories, radio and television scripts, and works of social and literary criticism .
Lucky Jim is a novel by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1954 by Victor Gollancz.It was Amis's first novel and won the 1955 Somerset Maugham Award for fiction. The novel follows the academic and romantic tribulations of the eponymous James (Jim) Dixon, a reluctant history lecturer at an unnamed provincial English university.
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"What slightly spoils this diatribe, however, is that to prepare for it I went back to Kingsley Amis’s novels and enjoyed myself more than was convenient for my purposes. Jake’s Thing , for instance, famously rancid with misogyny, turns out, on re-reading, to be surprisingly tender in parts, and intensely moving on the humiliations of ...
Kingsley Amis: Lucky Jim: 1954 Kingsley Amis: The Anti-Death League: 1966 James Baldwin: Another Country: 1962 J. G. Ballard: The Unlimited Dream Company: 1979 John Barth: Giles Goat-Boy: 1966 Saul Bellow: The Victim: 1947 Saul Bellow: Humboldt's Gift: 1975 Elizabeth Bowen: The Heat of the Day: 1949 Malcolm Bradbury: The History Man: 1975 John ...
The James Bond Dossier (1965), by Kingsley Amis, is a critical analysis of the James Bond novels.Amis dedicated the book to friend and background collaborator, the poet and historian Robert Conquest.
Amis called him, in a letter to Philip Larkin (10 July 1955) - 'very amiable in a childish way, which is a heap better than some mature ways' - 'he doesn't quite know which country he belongs to - he is a motor-bike maniac, endlessly discussing the engine of his German motor-scooter ("This is one of the only twelve that were ever put on the ...
Colonel Sun is a novel by Kingsley Amis published by Jonathan Cape on 28 March 1968 under the pseudonym "Robert Markham". Colonel Sun is the first James Bond continuation novel published after Ian Fleming's 1964 death.