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One Fat Englishman by Kingsley Amis; David Lodge (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction
The hero of One Fat Englishman, a literary publisher and lapsed Catholic escaped from the pages of Graham Greene to the campus of Budweiser College in provincial Pennsylvania, is philandering, drunken, bigoted, and very very fat, not to mention in a state of continuous spluttering rage against everythin ...Show more
One Fat Englishman by Kingsley Amis
Category: Fiction
Roger Micheldene, an English publisher, is on the loose in the U. S. He spends an October week shuttling between New York & Budweiser College in Pennsylvania. This exercises all his British appetites...snobbery, gluttony, anger, sloth & lust
One Fat Englishman by Kingsley Amis
Category: Fiction
Brimming with gluttony, booze and lust, Roger Micheldene is loose in America. Supposedly visiting Budweiser University to make deals for his publishing firm in England, Roger instead sets out to offend all he meets and to seduce every woman he encounters. But his American hosts seem made of sterner stuf ...Show more
Raising a Smile: Selected Non-Fiction by Kingsley Amis
Category: Languages and Reference
This vast and hugely entertaining collection is vintage Amis from a succession of good years. All of his best non-fiction pieces have been gathered together to reveal Kingsley Amis at his most typically robust and incisive: cutting a swathe through such subjects as writers and writing, 'Abroad', eating ...Show more
Stanley and the Women by Kingsley Amis
Category: Fiction
Just when Stanley Duke thinks it safe to sink into middle age, his son, Steve, goes insane. As if that weren't terrible enough, Stanley finds himself beset on all sides by women - neurotic, half-baked, critical or just plain capricious. As one by one they gnaw away at his composure, Stanley wonders whet ...Show more
Take a Girl Like You by Kingsley Amis
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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 arrogant schoolmaster, wants her so much. This perceptive coming of age novel about a northern girl who moves south, wants to fit in and yet wants to pres ...Show more
That Uncertain Feeling by Kingsley Amis
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
In "That Uncertain Feeling" by Kingsley Amis, competition is stiff for the position of sub-librarian in Aberdarcy Library. For John Lewis, the situation is complicated by the attentions of daunting and desirable village socialite, Elizabeth Gruffyd-Williams, who is married to a member of the local Counc ...Show more
The Alteration by Kingsley Amis
Category: Classic | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
In Kingsley Amis's virtuoso foray into virtual history it is 1976 but the modern world is a medieval relic, frozen in intellectual and spiritual time ever since Martin Luther was promoted to pope back in the sixteenth century. Stephen the Third, the king of England, has just died, and Mass (Mozart's sec ...Show more
The Amis Collection: Selected Non-fiction by Kingsley Amis
Category: Languages and Reference
A collection of witty, cantakerous essays skewering the cultural touchstones of an era, from one of the greatest writers, drinkers and critics of our timeWhat advice can one give a green young author? What purpose do literary prizes serve? Where on earth can a man get a decent bite to eat? This entertai ...Show more
The Anti-Death League by AMIS KINGSLEY
Category: Fiction
In this surreal comedy of soldiers and spies, Lieutenant James Churchill and his colleagues find themselves questioning their purpose. Are they for death or against it? These men of action will travel between the barracks, the lunatic asylum and the house of an aristocratic nymphomaniac in search of ans ...Show more