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Kingsley Amis' witty campus novel, "Lucky Jim" is a comedy that skewers the hypocrisies and vanities of 1950s academic life. This "Penguin Modern ... More

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Winner of the 1986 Booker Prize. Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one main ambition left in life: to drink Wales dry. But ... More

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In every respect Hubert is utterly ordinary - a nice, rather timid ten-year-old boy. The year is 1976, but by bold Amisian sleight-of-hand the ... More

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"Contains all the best and familiar Amis qualities -- including superb sexual comedy." --"Sunday Times" " " Like all good medieval coaching inns, ... More

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An indispensable companion for readers, writers, and even casual users of the language, the "Penguin Modern Classics" edition of Kingsley Amis' "The ... More

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Douglas Yandell, a youngish music critic, is enlisted by Kitty Vandervane to keep an eye on her roving husband - the eminent conductor and would-be ... More

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Brimming with gluttony, booze and lust, Roger Micheldene is loose in America. Supposedly visiting Budweiser University to make deals for his ... More

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For Garnet Bowen, one of the most frightening things about "abroad" is that there's so much of it. And, to his consternation, no matter how he tries, ... More

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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 ... More

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In this surreal comedy of soldiers and spies, Lieutenant James Churchill and his colleagues find themselves questioning their purpose. Are they for ... More

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As if it weren't terrible enough, Stanley finds himself beset on all sides by women - neurotic, half-baked, critical or just plain capricious. As one ... More

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In Kingsley Amis' "Take A Girl Like You", twenty year old Jenny Bunn is supernally beautiful and stubbornly chaste, which is why Patrick Standish, an ... More

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In "That Uncertain Feeling" by Kingsley Amis, competition is stiff for the position of sub-librarian in Aberdarcy Library. For John Lewis, the ... More

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Harry Caldecote is the most charming man you'll ever meet, a convivial academic who devotes his life to others. He is on call when his alcoholic ... More

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At Tuppenny-hapenny Cottage in the English countryside, five elderly people live together in rancorous disharmony. Adela Bastable bosses the house, ... More

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Robin Davies is both a shrewd observer and an energetic actor in a drama which takes him from school to Oxford. With him we live through all the ... More

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Award-winning writer Kingsley Amis's newest novel is a dazzling romp through a territory he has made triumphantly his own--the battle of the sexes ... More

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The quickest way to get rich is to marry someone rich, but how do you do this if you aren't yet rich? TV chat-show host Ronnie Appleyard is ... More

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In Kingsley Amis' "Difficulties With Girls", Jenny Bunn and Patrick Standish have settled into London life with their troubled courtship long behind ... More

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A defense of science fiction by the celebrated English novelist and critic ("The Alteration"). These essays are based on a series of lectures given ... More

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This autobiography of Kingsley Amis covers his upbringing in lower middle-class South London, Oxford, during and just after the war, his friendship ... More

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A mummy is stolen from a small town museum along with some Roman coins and a soaking wet man collapses in fourteen year old Peter Furneaux's living ... More

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