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I Want it Now by Kingsley Amis
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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 preoccupied with this question as he pursues wealthy heiress Simona Quick over two continents in the company of braying aristocrats, Greek shipping magnates, Americ ...Show more
Jake's Thing by Kingsley Amis
Category: Fiction
A powerful read brought back to life; surprising, honest and witty at every turn. 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, ...Show more
Jake's Thing by Kingsley Amis
Category: Fiction
Jake Richardson, an Oxford don nearing sixty with a lifetime's lechery behind him, is in pursuit of his lost libido and heads of 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 th ...Show more
Jake's Thing (Vintage Classics) by Kingsley Amis
Category: Classic
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 t ...Show more
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis, Kingsley Amis
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
'His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as a mausoleum. During the night, too, he'd somehow been on a cross-country run and then been expertly beaten up by secret police. He felt bad'. Jix Dixon has a terrible job at a second-rate university. His life is full ...Show more
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis, Kingsley Amis
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons. As long as Jim can survive a madrigal-singing weekend at Professor Welch's, deliver a lecture on 'Merrie England' and resist Christine, the girlf ...Show more
Lucky Jim (Penguin Decades) by Kingsley Amis
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Decades
"Penguin Decades" bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of ...Show more
Lucky Jim: Popular Penguins by Kingsley Amis
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
'His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as a mausoleum. During the night, too, he'd somehow been on a cross-country run and then been expertly beaten up by secret police. He felt bad.'Jix Dixon has a terrible job at a second-rate university. His life is full o ...Show more
Memoirs by Kingsley Amis
Category: Classic Fiction
"Endlessly entertaining-Good, rollicking stuff, and a delight to read -- Sir Kingsley Amis is surely one of the funniest men alive." --Auberon Waugh, Sunday Telegraph Elegant, provocative and hugely entertaining, Kingsley Amis's memoirs are filled with anecdotes, experiences and portraits of famous fri ...Show more
New Maps of Hell by Kingsley Amis
Category: Classic Fiction
In this hilarious, inspiring and provocative series of essays, Kingsley Amis introduces every reader to the wonders and value of science fiction writing. From the extraordinary ideas but sexless science of Jules Verne to the power of H. G. Wells' terrifying storytelling; from the brilliance of bad scien ...Show more