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Sally Amis. 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. He is best known for satirical comedies such as Lucky Jim (1954 ...
- Lucky Jim
30438025. LC Class. 54-5356. Lucky Jim is a novel by...
- The Old Devils
The Old Devils is a novel by Kingsley Amis, published in...
- Lucky Jim
Kingsley Amis (born April 16, 1922, London, England—died October 22, 1995, London) was a 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. Amis was educated at the City of London School and at St. John’s College, Oxford (B.A., 1949).
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30438025. LC Class. 54-5356. 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 ...
Kingsley Amis. Sir Kingsley William Amis (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) 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 .
The Old Devils is a novel by Kingsley Amis, published in 1986. [1] It won the Booker Prize. [2] Alun Weaver, a writer of modest celebrity, returns to his native Wales with his wife, Rhiannon, sometime girlfriend of Weaver's old acquaintance Peter Thomas. Alun begins associating with a group of former friends, including Peter, all of whom have ...
Oct 23, 1995 · Kingsley Amis was born, ironically enough, in 1922, the year in which the great masterpiece of modernist fiction, James Joyce's Ulysses, was published. He was brought up in a dull outer suburb of ...
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Learn about the life and career of Kingsley Amis, a poet, novelist, and critic who wrote humorous but biting satire of British society and culture. Explore his novels, such as Lucky Jim, The Old Devils, and The Alteration, and his poetry, such as The Poems of Kingsley Amis.
