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Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis by Kingsley Amis, 2010-04-27 Lucky Jim (Penguin Modern Classics) by Kingsley Amis, 2000-05-25 Old Devils: A Novel by Kingsley Amis, 1988-03 Lucky Jim (Penguin Classics) by Kingsley Amis, 1993-09-01 Ending Up by Kingsley Amis, 1976-04-30 Green Man The by Kingsley Amis, 2005-08-30 Collected Short Stories by Kingsley Amis, 1994-06 The King's English : A Guide to Modern Usage by Kingsley Amis, 1999-08-01 Girl, 20 by Kingsley Amis, 1989-04 I Like it Here by Kingsley Amis, 1961 Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis, 1976-11-18 Take a Girl Like You by Kingsley Amis, 1976-04-29 Rudyard Kipling (Literary Lives Series) by Kingsley Amis, 1986-08 Lucky Jim: a Rollicking Misadventure by Kingsley Amis, 1954

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1. Kingsley Amis - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
   Kingsley Amis was born in Clapham, South London, England, the son of William Robert Amis, a mustard manufacturer s clerk. 1 He began his education at the  
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   Extractions: London England Occupation novelist, poet, critic, teacher Nationality British Writing period Genres Fiction fictional prose Debut works Bright November Influenced Martin Amis Sir Kingsley William Amis CBE April 16 October 22 ) was an English novelist poet critic , and teacher . He wrote more than twenty novels, three collections of poetry, short stories, radio and television scripts, and books of social and literary criticism. He fathered English novelist Martin Amis Kingsley Amis was born in Clapham South London England , the son of William Robert Amis, a mustard manufacturer's clerk. He began his education at the City of London School , and went up to St. John's College, Oxford April 1941 to read English; it was there that he met Philip Larkin , with whom he formed the most important friendship of his life. After only a year, he was called up for Army service in July 1942. After serving in the Royal Corps of Signals in the Second World War, Amis returned to Oxford in October 1945 to complete his degree. Although he worked hard and got a first in English in 1947, he had by then decided to give much of his time to writing.

2. Kingsley Amis - Wikiquote
   Sir Kingsley William Amis (April 16, 1922 – October 22, 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. See also his son novelist Martin Amis.  
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   Extractions: Not the royal tourist. New Approach Needed , about the Second Coming It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children. One Fat Englishman Your attitude measures up to the two requirements of love. You want to go to bed with her and can't, and you don't know her very well. Ignorance of the other person topped up with deprivation, Jim. You fit the formula all right, and what's more you want to go on fitting it. Lucky Jim There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones. Lucky Jim More will mean worse.

3. Kingsley Amis
   Kingsley Amis. Kingsley Amis Born 16Apr-1922 Birthplace London, England Died 22-Oct-1995 Son Martin Amis (novelist, b. 25-Aug-1949)  
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4. SS > SF > Book Reviews > Kingsley Amis
   Kingsley Amis, Robert Conquest, editors. Spectrum 1. 1963. Contents (possible spoilers). • Frederik Pohl. The Midas Plague. 1951; • Clifford D. Simak.  
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5. Kingsley Amis - Simple English Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
   As a young man, Kingsley Amis was a member of the Communist Party. He left them when the Soviet Union invaded Hungary in 1956. After that, Amis became  
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   Extractions: Jump to: navigation search Sir Kingsley William Amis April 16 October 22 ) was an English novelist poet critic , and teacher . He wrote more than twenty novels , three collections of poetry , short stories, radio and television scripts , and books of social and literary criticism . He was the father of the British novelist Martin Amis Kingsley Amis was born in Clapham South London England . He went to school at the City of London School and St. John's College, Oxford . At Oxford, he met Philip Larkin and became friends . Amis served in the Royal Corps of Signals in the Second World War Amis was a fan of Jazz music. He really liked the American musicians Sidney Bechet Henry "Red" Allen and Pee Wee Russell His first novel Lucky Jim was very successfull . The novel won the Somerset Maugham Award for fiction Lucky Jim was the first English novel that focused on an ordinary man as anti-hero . As a poet, Amis was a part of The Movement anti romantic poetry).

6. Kingsley Amis Biography | Clivejames.com
   In his early role as Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis declared the awkward essence of his personality. I m the boredom detector . That ability, or affliction,  
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   Extractions: @import "/misc/drupal.css"; @import "/themes/cj/style.css"; Home Text Recent Articles In his early role as Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis declared the awkward essence of his personality. "I'm the boredom detector". That ability, or affliction, qualified all his other propensities, even the one for multi-targeted amorous desire. In Zachary Leader's long, thorough and generally judicious new biography, its hero's spasmodic quest for emotional satisfaction is rarely out of the picture. The novelist, poet, critic, teacher and bibulous clubman we more or less frequently meet, but the man with sex on his mind we seldom escape. Journalists understandably find this material an alluring compost in which to burrow. But even here they tend to miss the spiritual element, signalled by how easily the universal lover — Roger Micheldene in One Fat Englishman In his time, Professor Carey had called Lucky Jim Memoirs That Uncertain Feeling Lucky Jim , Bertrand, the high-scoring tail-chaser, is the villain. In Take a Girl Like You The Anti-Death League Take a Girl Like You , Jenny Bunn is the fully articulated version of Christine in Lucky Jim . Those who thought Christine unreal would have twice the reason to think that of Jenny, but surely, in both cases, the combination of beauty and goodness is not impossible.

7. Kingsley Amis - Poems, Biography, Quotes
   Free collection of all Kingsley Amis Poems and Biography. See the best poems and poetry by Kingsley Amis.  
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   Extractions: Kingsley Amis Enlarge Picture View Kingsley Amis: Poems Quotes Biography Books Novelist, poet, critic, and teacher, father of the writer Martin Amis, generally grouped among the "angry young men" in the 1950s, though he denied the affiliation. Amis' ascent from the obscurity of lower-middle-class London was largely self-willed. He became a man of outrageous wit and genius, and gained reputation as a "supreme clubman, boozer and blimp." A radical in his young adulthood, Amis was later know for his conservative critique of contemporary life and manners.

8. Kingsley Amis - The Huffington Post
   Irving Babbitt about Sophocles, estimating the relative merits of English comic writers from W.S. Gilbert to Kingsley Amis, paying a wellinformed tribute  
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   Extractions: var tcdacmd="dt"; Welcome Edit preferences Logout Log In Sign Up ... Home Site Web 2 days ago on Telegraph ... plus four two-hour public lectures and a two-hour teaching event at a summer school. Amis , the son of the late Sir Kingsley Amis , was once feted as a literary icon for novels such as London Fields. He inspired a mixture of awe and envy in the literary world... 5 days ago on Gawker ... The autobiography is called Miracles of Life. Also, in the interview Ballard shocks the world by remembering Kingsley Amis as something other than a complete dick. “He was a very likable and warm-hearted man and I owe him a lot,” he says, although his friend... 8 days ago on Newsweek ... of Mirth" by Edith Wharton. An astonishment of a book; still so new despite being almost a century old. 2. "Lucky Jim" by Kingsley Amis . Not just funny, but a litmus test of humor by which one can judge (harshly and without quarter) one's prospective friends....

9. Famous Poet: Kingsley Amis
   Kingsley Amis was born in Clapham, South London, educated at the City of London School and St. John s College, Oxford, where he met Philip Larkin,  
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   Extractions: He wrote more than twenty novels, three collections of poetry, short stories, radio and television scripts, and books of social and literary criticism. He is the father of the British novelist Martin Amis. Kingsley Amis was born in Clapham, South London, educated at the City of London School and St. John's College, Oxford, where he met Philip Larkin, with whom Amis formed the most important friendship of his life. After serving in the Royal Corps of Signals in the Second World War, Amis completed university in 1947, and was a lecturer in English at the University of Wales Swansea (1948–61), and at Cambridge (1961–63), where he was a fellow of Peterhouse. Amis achieved popular success with his first novel Lucky Jim, which is considered by many to be an exemplary novel of 1950s Britain. The novel won the Somerset Maugham Award for fiction and Amis was associated with the writers labelled the Angry Young Men. Lucky Jim is a seminal work, the first English novel featuring an ordinary man as anti-hero. As a poet, Amis was associated with The Movement.

10. Kingsley Amis: Blogs, Photos, Videos And More On Technorati
    Kingsley Amis (1922 1995), English novelist. I am currently reading Amis The Old Devils which won the 1986 Booker Prize and may be Amis best novel after  
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    Extractions: The latest news, blogs, and banter on campaigns, candidates, and the gov. advanced ... Blogger Central Subscribe search in entire post tags only of blogs with any authority a little authority some authority a lot of authority in language all languages Arabic (العربية) Chinese (中文) Dutch (Nederlands) English French (Fran§ais) German (Deutsch) Greek (Ελληνικά) Hebrew (עברית) Italian (Italiano) Japanese (日本語) Korean (한국어) Norwegian (Norsk) Persian (فارسی) Polish (Polski) Portuguese (Portuguªs) Russian (Русский) Spanish (Espa±ol) Swedish (Svenska) Turkish (T¼rk§e) Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt) http://shadowofdiogenes.blogs.com/ shadow/ 2007/ 12/ kingsley-amis-s.html " If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. " - Kingsley Amis (1922 - 1995), English novelist. I am currently reading Amis' The Old Devils which won the 1986 Booker Prize and may be Amis' best novel after Lucky Jim (1954) . 53 days ago in Shadow of Diogenes Authority: 33 http://shadowofdiogenes.blogs.com/ shadow/ 2007/ 12/ kingsley-amis-s.html

11. RandomHouse.ca | Author Spotlight: Kingsley Amis
    Kingsley Amis wrote over twenty novels including Lucky Jim (1954) and The Old Devils, winner of the Booker Prize in 1986. He died in October, 1995.  
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12. Kingsley Amis
    A brief literary biography of the author, with bibliography.  
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    Extractions: Sir Kingsley Amis (1922-1995) Novelist, poet, critic, and teacher, father of the writer Martin Amis, generally grouped among the "angry young men" in the 1950s with such writers as John Osborne, John Braine, John Wain, Arnold Wesker, and Alan Sillitoe However, Amis himself denied the affiliation. A radical in his young adulthood, Amis was later know for his conservative critique of contemporary life and manners. He once said, that if you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing. "'You'll find that marriage is a good short cut to the truth. No, not quite that. A way of doubling back to the truth. Another thing you'll find is that the years of illusion aren't those of adolescense, as the grown-ups try to tell us; they're the ones immediately after it, say the middle twenties, the false maturity if you like, when you first get thoroughly embroiled in things and lose your head. Your age, by the way, Jim. That's when you first realize that sex is important to other people besides yourself. A discovery like that can't help knocking you off balance for a time.'" (from Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis was born in London as the only son of a business clerk. He was educated at the City of London School and St. John's College, Oxford. There he joined the Communist Party, edited the Oxford Labour Club

13. Kingsley Amis
    A bibliography of kingsley amis s books, with the latest releases, covers, descriptions and availability.  
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14. Amis, Kingsley | Authors | Guardian Unlimited Books
    kingsley amis (19221995). Any proper writer ought to be able to write about anything. Birthplace London, England Education City of London; St John s,  
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15. Modern Drunkard Magazine Online
    Not so kingsley amis. His terror of riding a bus alone and entering a dark room meant that Hilly took him to his place first, then saw herself home.  
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    Extractions: Standing Up For Your Right to Get Falling Down Drunk Since 1996 Home Archives Subscribe Merchandise ... 40 Things Kingsley Amis did not care what people thought of his drinking. His school career was unremarkable until he was ten when a new teacher introduced him to Shakespeare and poetry. Amis wrote a poem of his own, and found that he liked it. When he was twelve, he attended the City of London School where boys wore uniforms and striped pants, and read Greek and Latin. There he discovered G.K. Chesterton and American jazz, and continued to write poetry that he later called pieces of appalling pretentiousness and affectation. His wickedly funny impersonations of teachers and other boys guaranteed his popularity. He won a scholarship to Oxford and started there in the spring of 1941. War cast a low-key atmosphere over the school, hardly what he had expected from novels about the school. Rationing made all sorts of things scarce, from sugar to gasoline, and he stood in long lines for extra food and cigarettes. It was in such a queue that he met fellow student Philip Larkin. The two discovered they shared a love of movies, jazz, and drinking; more importantly they were savagely uninterested in the same things, and the two became lifelong friends.

16. Sir Kingsley Amis
    British writer kingsley amis and his James Bond connections.  
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    Extractions: Sir Kingsley Amis (1922-1995) Kingsley Amis was born in Clapham, South London on April 16 1922, and after attending Oxford University , served in the Royal Signals Corps of British Army for 3 years during World War II. He became a lecturer in English at Swansea University in 1949, a career he continued until the early 1960s, when he began writing full-time. The author 2 dozen novels and 6 volumes of poetry, he made his reputation with the publication in 1954 of Lucky Jim , which earned him popular success and enduring fame. It is the story of a lower-middle class English lecturer at a provincial British university, not unlike Amis himself at that time. The novel strongly influenced a group of British novelists and playwrights who became known as the "Angry Young Men" for their scorn of British society after World War II. Amis rejected the label as "a very boring journalistic phrase." In 1965, Amis wrote 2 books: the literary critique

17. BBC - BBC Four - Audio Interviews - Kingsley Amis
    Listen to extracts from a BBC interview with kingsley amis.  
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18. Ian Fleming Centre: Kingsley Amis
    This pseudonym was later revealed as the disguise of kingsley amis, the distinguished novelist and author of THE JAMES BOND DOSSIER, which was published in  
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19. Sir Kingsley Amis -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia
    Britannica online encyclopedia article on Sir kingsley amis novelist, poet, critic, and teacher who created in his first novel, Lucky Jim, a comic figure  
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    Extractions: document.writeln(''); document.writeln('Initializing application...'); Username Password Remember me Forgot your password? Search Site: born April 16, 1922, London, England died October 22, 1995, London novelist, poet, critic, and teacher who created in his first novel, Lucky Jim, a comic figure that became a household word in Great Britain in the 1950s. Lucky Jim (1954, filmed 1957), was an immediate success and remains his most popular work. Its disgruntled antihero, a young university instructor named Jim Dixon, epitomized a newly important social group that had risen by dint of scholarships from lower-middle-class and working-class backgrounds only to find the more comfortable perches still occupied by the well-born. Lucky Jim prompted critics to group Amis with the Angry Young Men That Uncertain Feeling (1955), had a similar antihero. A visit to Portugal resulted in the novel I Like It Here (1958), while observations garnered from a teaching stint in the United States were expressed in the novel One Fat Englishman Amis went on to write more than 40 books, including some 20 novels, many volumes of poetry, and several collections of essays. His apparent lack of sympathy with his characters and his sharply satirical rendering of well-turned dialogue were complemented by his own curmudgeonly public persona. Notable among his later novels were

20. Kingsley Amis - Times Online
    When he burst on the scene in 1954 with his funny satire on conventional, respectable England, Lucky Jim,set in a provincial university, kingsley amis was  
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