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1	Lucky Jim more books like this by Kingsley Amis add to wishlist This best-selling comic novel by Kingsley Amis, one of the "Angry Young Men" who came to prominence in the early 1950s, describes the frustrations met by Jim Dixon, a lecturer at a provincial British university, in his academic and private life. Approaching middle age and as yet unpublished, untenured, and unattached, Dixon needs most of all to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The old devils more books like this by Kingsley Amis add to wishlist Winner of the Booker Prize in 1986, Amis's novel is a satirical but sympathetic portrait of a group of old retired pals in a Welsh town, stoically facing old age and the trials it brings: failing health, problems with booze, and romantic tangles. Kingsley Amis's son, the writer Martin Amis, considered this his father's masterpiece. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.23! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Everyday Drinking more books like this by Kingsley Amis, Christopher Hitchens (Introduction by) add to wishlist Mixing practical know-how and opinion, this collection of hilarious and deeply informed writings about drink is served up by one of the great all-time authorities. see all copies from $7.94! new only from $11.26! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Alteration more books like this by Kingsley Amis add to wishlist A comic fantasy by the British author of LUCKY JIM and THE RUSSIAN GIRL. In 1976, in a Europe in which the Protestant Reformation never occurred, Jean-Paul Sartre is a Jesuit theologian, Himmler and Beria are papal envoys, and David Hockney is working on a portrait of the Virgin and Child. In the great cathedral town of Cowley, a mad farce ensues ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $12.74! \| first editions
5	The Green Man more books like this by Kingsley Amis add to wishlist Amis's comic horror tale concerns an English pub (The Green Man) haunted by a 17th-century parson who practices Satanism and visits all manner of abominations on the living. Maurice Allington, the owner and narrator, is a genial scoundrel who must exorcise the premises before all of his trade is scared or killed off. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.41! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Take a Girl Like You more books like this by Kingsley Amis add to wishlist This comic novel concerns the ill-fated romance between Jenny Bunn, a working-class girl from the north of England, and Patrick Standish, a master of Latin at an expensive boys' school. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $22.80! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The King's English: A Guide to Modern Usage more books like this by Kingsley Amis add to wishlist Posthumously published, the great man's trenchant, provocative and authoritative guide to the use and abuse of the English language. Sir Kingsley Amis, who died in 1995, occupied a unique position in the world of English letters: elder statesman, former angry young man, latter-day curmudgeon and, above all, comic novelist of genius. In all his ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.90! \| first editions
8	The New Oxford Book of English Light Verse more books like this by Kingsley Amis (Editor) add to wishlist extremely funny and absorbing ... a refelction, of course, of the sureness of Amis's taste.'___ Books and Bookmen . see all copies from $1.99! new only from $36.95! \| first editions
9	Ending up more books like this by Kingsley Amis add to wishlist Beset by boredom and the decay of old age, the septuagenarian inhabitants of Tuppenny-hapenny Cottage find that malice is the best recipe for keeping their spirits alive. And when the grandchildren arrive to do their duty on Christmas Day, the festivities degenerate into an unforeseen riot. see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
10	King's English more books like this by Kingsley Amis add to wishlist The late Kingsley Amis's last word on the state of the language, "The King's English" is more frolicsome that "Fowler's", lighter than the "OED", and brimming with the strong opinions and razor-sharp wit that made Amis so popular--and so controversial. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
11	The Folks That Live on the Hill more books like this by Kingsley Amis add to wishlist Set in North London, a retired librarian is surrounded by his widowed sister, a hopeless son, a failed poet brother and a lesbian niece. From the author of "Lucky Jim" and "I Like it Here". The author won the Booker Prize in 1986 for "The Old Devils". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $26.63! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12	I like it here more books like this by Kingsley Amis add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
13 view cover	Russian Girl more books like this by Kingsley Amis add to wishlist Richard teaches Russian at the University of London: he's clever, remote, and married to the appalling Claudia. Despite the pity his friends and colleagues feel for him, he gets by - until he receives a phone call from a Russian poet who claims she needs his help. Richard soon thinks he is in love. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.94! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Colonel Sun more books like this by Ian Fleming, Kingsley Amis, Jim Lawrence add to wishlist The legend continues! Stand by for more adventures with the world's greatest secret agent, as some of his most thrilling missions are collected for the first time ever! When James Bond's boss, the enigmatic M, is kidnapped in Greece, Bond must race to his rescue - with only some local fishermen to help! But, 007 uncovers a plan to sabotage a USSR ... see all copies from $9.93! new only from $12.29! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The letters of Kingsley Amis more books like this by Kingsley Amis, Professor Zachary Leader (Editor) add to wishlist This annotated selection of Amis's correspondence includes 240 hilarious letters to his friend Philip Larkin. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002. see all copies from $7.55! new only from $23.00! \| first editions
16	Girl, 20 more books like this by Kingsley Amis add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.00! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The New Oxford Book of Light Verse more books like this by Kingsley Amis (Selected by) add to wishlist An anthology of light English verse, compiled and edited by the celebrated British novelist (author of "Lucky Jim" and "The Russian Girl"). see all copies from $1.99! new only from $52.58! \| first editions
18 view cover	One Fat Englishman more books like this by Kingsley Amis add to wishlist Roger Micheldene is full of gluttony, sloth and lust, bounding with anger and affronted by everything on the American scene. He is an English gentleman who fails to see how his presence might adversely affect Anglo-American relations. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
19	Crime of the Century more books like this by Kingsley Amis add to wishlist When a series of murders performed by a killer with a peculiarly thin blade take place in London, Detective Superintendent Bill Barry is recalled from retirement. Doctors, psychologists, lawyers and politicians join in the hunt, but the biggest crime is yet to come. First published as a six-part serial in "The Sunday Times" newspaper in 1975, ... see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20	That uncertain feeling more books like this by Kingsley Amis add to wishlist see all copies from $2.53! signed copies \| first editions
21	New Maps of Hell: A Survey of Science Fiction more books like this by Kingsley Amis add to wishlist A defense of science fiction by the celebrated English novelist and critic ("The Alteration"). These essays are based on a series of lectures given by Amis at Princeton University in 1958. see all copies from $8.00! first editions
22	Spectrum II; a second science fiction anthology more books like this by Kingsley Amis, Robert Conquest add to wishlist see all copies from $2.40! first editions
23	Kingsley Amis Omnibus more books like this by Kingsley Amis add to wishlist An omnibus containing three Kingsley Amis novels - "Jake's Thing", "Stanley and the Women" and "The Old Devils", which won the 1986 Booker Prize for Fiction. see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Jake's thing more books like this by Kingsley Amis add to wishlist Jake Richardson, an Oxford don nearing sixty with a lifetime's lechery behind him, is in pursuit of his lost libido and heads off to the consulting room of a miniature sex therapist. Not one to disobey a doctor's orders, he runs the full humiliating gamut of sex labs and trendy 'workshops', where more than souls are bared. He decks himself with ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.68! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25	Spectrum : a science fiction anthology. 5 by Kingsley Amis, Robert Conquest add to wishlist see all copies from $2.00! first editions

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