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The Life of Kingsley Amis by Zachary Leader, 2009-03-10
Memoirs by Kingsley Amis, 1991-09
The Letters of Kingsley Amis by Zachary Leader, 2001-11-21
The Alteration by Kingsley Amis, 1988-09
The Anti-death League by Kingsley Amis, 1975-11-30
The Golden Age of Science Fiction (An Anthology) by Kingsley Amis, 1982
MAKING COCOA FOR KINGSLEY AMIS by Wendy Cope, 1999
The James Bond Dossier by Kingsley Amis, 1966-07
The Anti-Egotist: Kingsley Amis, Man of Letters by Paul Fussell, 1994-09-15
James Bond: Colonel Sun by Kingsley Amis, 2006-05-01
Experience: A Memoir by Martin Amis, 2001-06-12
Kingsley Amis: A Biography by Eric Jacobs, 1998-06
Understanding Kingsley Amis (Understanding Contemporary British Literature) by Merritt Moseley, 1993-04-01
James Bond: Colonel Sun by Kingsley Amis, 1969

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Masterpiece Theatre | Lucky Jim | Kingsley Amis
Comic master, ardent communist, outspoken curmudgeon, gleeful womanizer, and outraged rightwinger The personalities of novelist kingsley amis were various
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Extractions: Comic master, ardent communist, outspoken curmudgeon, gleeful womanizer, and outraged right-winger: The personalities of novelist Kingsley Amis were various and colorful. In poetry, novels, journalism, and copious letters, Amis's ability to shock, provoke, and tickle won him a spot in British literary history, if not on popular reading lists. The only son of a business clerk, Amis was born in 1922 in London. He was educated at the City of London School and St. John's College, Oxford University, where he became acutely aware of his lower-middle-class origins. After service in the army with the Royal Corps of Signals, he completed his university studies and worked as a lecturer in English at Oxford, Swansea, and Cambridge, which provided the academic settings for many of his largely autobiographical stories.
The Old Devil: Books: The New Yorker
A life of kingsley amis. But when you come to the superornery English novelist kingsley amis you realize that you have no idea what you could possibly
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Kingsley Amis Biography (1922-1995)
Larkin and amis remained close throughout their lives, engaging in spirited correspondence (recently collected in The Letters of kingsley amis) rife with
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Extractions: k i n g s l e y a m i s : b i o g . The only son of a business clerk, Amis was born in 1922 in London. He was educated at the City of London School and St. John's College, Oxford University, where he became acutely aware of his lower-middle-class origins. After service in the army with the Royal Corps of Signals, he completed his university studies and worked as a lecturer in English at Oxford, Swansea, and Cambridge, which provided the academic settings for many of his largely autobiographical stories. Best known for his satiric novels, Amis burst onto London's literary scene as a poet, with the collections Bright November, (1947) and A Frame of Mind (1953). During this time, Amis was part of "The Movement," an anti-sentimentalist group of British poets whose members included Robert Conquest, Elizabeth Jennings, and Philip Larkin. Larkin and Amis became fast friends, hanging out in pubs, listening to American jazz, and mocking pretension and pomposity in all its forms. They were reacting against the clean-living intellectualism of the 1930s and the snobby aestheticism of the 1920s, known as the "Brideshead years," after Evelyn Waugh's novel. Larkin and Amis remained close throughout their lives, engaging in spirited correspondence (recently collected in The Letters of Kingsley Amis) rife with pun-filled riffs on literature, women and work.
Literary Encyclopedia: Kingsley Amis
One of Englands most popular, controversial, and versatile writers, Sir kingsley amis was intricately involved in many of the socioliterary debates since
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Amis Biography Review
I ve made it clear before that Sir kingsley amis is one of my favorite writers, so I have eagerly searched out material on him. Earlier I read his Memoirs
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Extractions: Posted: Dec 13 1995 5:41PM TITLE: Kingsley Amis, a Biography AUTHOR: Eric Jacobs PUBLISHED: 1995 (in the UK) One of the strange new interests I have discovered in myself in the past couple of years is an interest in literary biographies and memoirs. In the past, I have never been much interested in biographies in general: the only exception I can think of is reading a couple of Wellington biographies while I was reading Bernard Cornwell`s Sharpe series of historical novels. But in recent years I have read with considerable enjoyment a number of memoirs, autobiographies, and biographies by authors whom I like, and I find them almost invariably interesting. I've made it clear before that Sir Kingsley Amis is one of my favorite writers, so I have eagerly searched out material on him. Earlier I read his Memoirs (1991) and Paul Fussell`s The Anti-Egoist (1994), a critical survey of his occasional writing. This biography was published earlier this year in the UK, prior to Amis` death. I don't believe it is available in the USA. [It has since been published here.] The biography is an authorized biography, and its primary sources are conversations with Amis, Amis` letters and his friends` letters, and Amis` own
Sir Kingsley Amis â Infoplease.com
Related content from HighBeam Research on Sir kingsley amis. I m a great man for tyrannies a conversation with kingsley amis.
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Extractions: google_ad_client = 'pub-1894504138907931'; google_ad_width = 120; google_ad_height = 240; google_ad_format = '120x240_as'; google_ad_type = 'text'; google_ad_channel =''; google_color_border = ['336699','B4D0DC','DFF2FD','B0E0E6']; google_color_bg = ['FFFFFF','ECF8FF','DFF2FD','FFFFFF']; google_color_link = ['0000FF','0000CC','0000CC','000000']; google_color_url = ['008000','008000','008000','336699']; google_color_text = ['000000','6F6F6F','000000','333333']; Encyclopedia Amis, Sir Kingsley key Lucky Jim (1954), a brilliant comic satire on academic life, classified him as one of England's angry young men . His increasing cultural and social disillusionment, always well laced with a fine sense of comedy, is also apparent in such other novels as That Certain Feeling (1955) and Take a Girl like You (1960), and often edges into an angry misanthropy and sometimes a savage misogyny in such later novels as
WHY LUCKY JIM TURNED RIGHT'- AN OBITUARY OF KINGSLEY AMIS
When kingsley amis died last year at the age of 73, the general verdict was that he had been the greatest comic novelist of his generation.
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Extractions: When Kingsley Amis died last year at the age of 73, the general verdict was that he had been the greatest comic novelist of his generation. After making his mark with Lucky Jim (1954) he never looked back, as one comic novel after the other flowed from his pen. Such was the continued acclaim for his work that in 1986 he won the Booker prize for The Old Devils. As a contributor to The Spectator put it, 'He was above all quick-minded, verbally agile, terribly funny, a vigorous persecutor of bores, pseuds and wankers and a most tremendous mimic.' In later works, like Jake's Thing (1978) and Stanley and the Women (1984), he examined the growing gender conflicts between men and women and their impact on the family and on male psychology. And his prize-winning The Old Devils (1986) showed his cantankerously mortal sensibility, still sustaining what was now the long dark comedy of life into later years, in which the once angry young man had turned into a yet more angry and mortal old one. So, a justification for Amis's novels can be to detach them from the ideology of their author and to read them against the grain - in much the same way as the novels of (say) Evelyn Waugh can serve as critical commentary on what they describe, despite their author's intentions. Where Waugh can expose the limitations of upper class society (particularly, for example, the behaviour of top army brass in his war trilogy), Amis can expose sexist limitations in the drunken self indulgent middle class section of society he chooses to focus on as it advances into middle age.
Kingsley Amis
Writer Only Two Can Play. Visit IMDb for Photos, Filmography, Discussions, Bio, News, Awards, Agent, Fan Sites.
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Extractions: Now Playing Movie/TV News My Movies DVD New Releases ... search All Titles TV Episodes My Movies Names Companies Keywords Characters Quotes Bios Plots more tips SHOP KINGSLEY... DVD VHS CD IMDb Kingsley Amis Quicklinks categorized by type by year by ratings by votes titles for sale by genre by keyword power search credited with biography other works publicity contact miscellaneous Top Links biography by votes awards news articles ... message board Filmographies categorized by type by year by ratings ... tv schedule Biographical biography other works publicity contact ... message board External Links official sites miscellaneous photographs sound clips ... video clips advertisement photos board add contact details Photos Add photo(s) and resume with IMDb Resume Services Date of Birth: 16 April London, England, UK more Date of Death: 22 October , London, England, UK (complications from a fall) more Trivia: Politically a Tory who stood in opposition to the intellectual Left, he... more Alternate Names: Robert Markham Jump to filmography as: Writer Actor Writer: Lucky Jim (2003) (TV) (novel) Take a Girl Like You (2000) (TV) (novel) (1992) (mini) TV mini-series (novel) (1991) (mini) TV mini-series (novel) The Green Man (1990) (TV) (novel) Ending Up (1989) (TV) (novel) (1985) (mini) TV mini-series (novel) TV series (unknown episodes) Haunted: The Ferryman (1974) (TV) (novel) Take a Girl Like You (1970) (novel) TV series (unknown episodes) Only Two Can Play Lucky Jim (1957) (novel) Actor: Tell Me Lies (1968) .... Guest
Kingsley Amis - MSN Encarta
amis, kingsley (19221995), British novelist, whose works take a humorous yet highly critical look at British society, especially of the period
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Extractions: var s_account="msnportalencarta"; MSN home Mail My MSN Sign in ... more Hotmail Messenger My MSN MSN Directory Air Tickets/Travel Autos City Guides Election 2008 ... More Additional Reference Materials Thesaurus Translations Multimedia Other Resources Education Resources Math Help Foreign Language Help Project Planner ... Help Related Items more... Encarta Search Search Encarta about Kingsley Amis Also on Encarta Secret students What colleges really want Famous misquotes quiz Advertisement Encyclopedia Article Find Print E-mail Blog It Multimedia 2 items Kingsley Amis (1922-1995), British novelist, whose works take a humorous yet highly critical look at British society, especially of the period following the end of World War II in 1945. Born in London, he was educated at Saint John's College at the University of Oxford and then served in the British Army Royal Corps of Signals during World War II. After the war he became a college teacher. Amis's first novel, Lucky Jim (1954), a bitingly satirical story of an unheroic young college instructor, won the Somerset Maugham Award. The book influenced a number of British playwrights and novelists, including John Osborne and Alan Sillitoe , who were known as the angry young men because of their rebellious and critical attitude toward postwar British society. In his later novels
KINGSLEY AMIS (1922-1995)
A recent disasterthe death of Sir kingsley amis at 73drove home at once deathless memories of Lucky Jim, his funniest book, and the realization that there
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Extractions: The Touchstone , Nov/Dec 1995 Theoreticians of comedy claim sadness is at the heart of all humor. Charlie Chaplin, enslaved by the machine while tightening bolts for eight hours, encounters after work a lovely object for his affection, only to find himself programmed to his assembly-line ritual which he enacts on the buttons of her frock. The Tramp's chivalric dreams turn instantly to humiliation. Empathy lets us laugh at the human comedy the very moment we share the anguish of it. When W.C. Fields sees his cue-stick literally turn against him at just the projected moment of triumph, we are at the crossroads of two minds in the matter. It is as if laughter is unearned unless it wins its spurs in the crucible of some disaster. A recent disasterthe death of Sir Kingsley Amis at 73drove home at once deathless memories of Lucky Jim , his funniest book, and the realization that there would be no reprise. Actually, I had stopped trying to keep up with Amis' near-book- a-year pace nearly 20 years ago with Jake's Thing , a novel that is built on a single joke which is not so jokeful to some of us older parties. A thrice- married Oxford University reader in early Mediterranean history is treated by a quack for declining libidinal prowess. Part of his therapy includes a complicated and thankfully imaginary instrument called a "nocturnal mensurator". During sleep this device somehow hooks up to the relevant part and records on discs significant nighttime didoes.
The Old Devil Himself - New York Times
Especially in this country, kingsley amis is as closely identified with Lucky Jim (1954) as Leonard Bernstein is with West Side Story.
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Jonathan Yardley - Everything You Wanted To Know About Kingsley Amis, And More.
Modesty scarcely was kingsley amis s long suit, so perhaps it is appropriate that neither is modesty the long suit of Zachary Leader, a British academic who
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Extractions: var SA_Message="SACategory=" + 'opinion/columns/al/yardleyj'; Hello Change Preferences Sign Out Sign In Register Now ... Pets SEARCH: washingtonpost.com Web Search Archives washingtonpost.com Columns Print This Article ... Zenware: How To Build a Distraction-Free Desktop By Jonathan Yardley Sunday, April 15, 2007; Page BW15 THE LIFE OF KINGSLEY AMIS By Zachary Leader Digg Google placeAd('article',commercialNode,24,'',false) Pantheon. 996 pp. $39.95 Modesty scarcely was Kingsley Amis's long suit, so perhaps it is appropriate that neither is modesty the long suit of Zachary Leader, a British academic who has written, in his gargantuan Life of Kingsley Amis , what amounts to the official biography of the late novelist, humorist, journalist and television talking head. According to Leader, this biography "shows what it was like to meet Amis and to be him" and "makes a case for the breadth and depth of his writing and . . . tells the story of how and why he did what he did, both as a writer and as a man." One might consider these judgments to be reached by reviewers and readers rather than by the author himself, but Leader is his own reviewer: "Six themes shape this biography: the formative influence of Amis's early upbringing, which he himself identified as a key to his personality and to many of the most pressing concerns of his fiction and poetry; the aggression which is so marked a feature of his character and writings; his astonishing energy (to his son Martin he was 'a great engine of comedy'); his sense of writing as craft or profession; his hostility to distinctions between high culture and low and concomitant attraction to popular forms; and his lifelong obsession with egotism, selfishness, inconsiderateness, qualities he acutely anatomises and censures in his writing even as they threaten to overwhelm him in life."
Kingsley Amis Quotes
14 quotes and quotations by kingsley amis. kingsley amis He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was
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Where Disaster Rules By Kingsley Amis
Where Disaster Rules by kingsley amis. kingsley amis. Through the written word, Rules Restaurant in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, makes an interesting
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Extractions: Submit Keywords Submit Through the written word, Rules Restaurant in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, makes an interesting impression: oysters, George III, porter, Dickens, steak and kidney pudding. Thackeray (though they call him William Makepeace Thackeray now), tripe and onions, the Prince-of-Wales-and-Lily-Langtry, vintage port....Well a strong impression. I am probably alone in thinking Teddy the most boring figure in our national life since Rules opened in 1798, not excepting his grandson Edward VIII, allegedly another habitue The menu, too, reads well: English delicacies like whitebait and potted shrimps, red cabbage, boiled mutton and caper sauce, grouse, partridge and pheasant between stated dates, East End eels, mashed potatoes and peas, and if that "East End" sounds a bit of a false note, one must try to think that it will be a romantic note for visitors. Value free dishes like sea trout and escalope of veal are also on offer. Spirits had fallen a little on arrival in a rather cramped and overheated place where there turned out to be only a 50-50 chance of getting a seat in the drinks-before-food area. In our case at least these drinks were well made and quickly served, but on my second visit the waiter tried- in vain, actually-to put me right on the orthodox recipe for the Old-Fashioned cocktail. Part at least of the reason for this venture was that, as further observation soon showed, some sort of quarrel was evidently going on amongst the staff. Well, no comment, except that in these matters slackness at the top is to be looked for.
Family Defends 'racist' Sir Kingsley Amis - Telegraph
The family of the late Sir kingsley amis has rallied to his defence after he was accused of being a racist, antiSemitic boor, a drink-sodden, self-hating
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Modern Writers, Sir Kingsley Amis | Inspirational Wales
Sir kingsley amis (19221995) Novelist, poet and critic, kingsley amis was born in London but was a lecturer at Swansea University from 1948-1961.
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Extractions: Sir Kingsley Amis (1922-1995) Novelist, poet and critic, Kingsley Amis was born in London but was a lecturer at Swansea University from 1948-1961. Sometimes grouped among the "angry young men" of the 1950s, a label Kingsley Amis later rejected, Amis was a key member of the The Movement, which also included Robert Conquest, Elisabeth Jennings and Philip Larkin who became a life-long friend. Swansea University is the setting for Kingsley Amisâs first, and still best-known, novel Lucky Jim, published in 1954. That Uncertain Feeling (1956) is also set in Swansea. He wrote his Booker-prize winning novel The Old Devils (1986), with its South West Wales setting and very personal view of Welshness, while staying in Laugharne. Kingsley Amis was knighted in 1990.
Kingsley Amis, Mystery, Suspense, And Science Fiction Writer
amis, kingsley, Lucky Jim, 1954. That Uncertain Feeling, I Like It Here, Take a Girl Like You, One Fat Englishman, The AntiDeath League,
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Kingsley Amis: An Inventory Of His Collection At The Harry Ransom Humanities Res
kingsley amis (1922) is the author of seventeen novels, three collections of poetry, over twenty short stories, and ten books of social or literary
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Making Cocoa For Kingsley Amis@Everything2.com
Published by Faber and Faber in March 1986, Cope s introductory collection of poems, Making Cocoa for kingsley amis was published by Faber and Faber in 1986
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Poet: Sir Kingsley Amis - All Poems Of Sir Kingsley Amis
Poet Sir kingsley amis All poems of Sir kingsley amis .. poetry.
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Extractions: To download the eBook right-Click on the title and select "Save Target As". Biography Poems Comments More Info ... Stats 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 .. .. more >>

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