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| | Literary Encyclopedia: Kingsley Amis |
 | | In Experience, Martin Amis discusses the significance of his mother’s return to his father’s life, arguing that it alone accounts for the conciliatory and elegiac tone of The Old Devils: “You [brought] him back to life and love. | | | Discussing his authorial versatility in a 1975 interview with Dale Salwak, Amis famously remarked that “any proper writer ought to be able to write anything from an Easter Day sermon to a sheep-dip handout” and confessed that he considered himself to be like a “mid-or late-Victorian person”: | | | His comic satires remain among the most trenchant, incisive, and lively in twentieth century literature, for they capture with brazen integrity the contemporary world as it wished never to be seen: with its fragmented ideals and smug complacencies exposed. |
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http://www.literaryencyclopedia.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5102
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| | Barnes & Noble.com - Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis - Paperback |
| | Kingsley Amis is so talented, his observations so keen, that you cannot fail to be convinced that the young men he so brilliantly describes truly represent the classes with which his novel is concerned." | | | Kingsley Amis has written a marvelously funny novel describing the attempts of England's postwar generation to break from that country's traditional class structure. | | | With lively characters, Kingsley Amis, author of Take A Girl Like You, and the Green Man, paints a portrait of English life and love that can be interesting, to say the least, for our hero Jim. |
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http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?isbn=0140186301
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| | The Austin Chronicle Books: Book Reviews |
| | Amis writes almost nothing about his collapsed marriage: no explanation, no defense, and virtually no mention of his first wife. | | | In Amis' youth and childhood, Kingsley (author of Lucky Jim, that paradigm of academic comedies) was a famous wit and drinker, an enthusiastic adulterer, and a loving if cranky and neurotic father. | | | To further particularize Amis' special hell, every one of those events was gleefully, sneeringly, jeeringly recounted in the British press. |
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http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2000-09-01/books_vsbr.html
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| | Kingsley Amis: An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center |
| | Kingsley Amis (1922-) is the author of seventeen novels, three collections of poetry, over twenty short stories, and ten books of social or literary criticism. | | | At St. John's Amis met Philip Larkin; both men were studying English Literature and remained close friends throughout their lives. | | | Other Amis titles are represented in the collection by notes and fragments. |
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http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/uthrc/00007/00007-P.html
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| | WHY LUCKY JIM TURNED RIGHT'- AN OBITUARY OF KINGSLEY AMIS |
| | Amis evidently disliked both the snobbishly aristocratic cultural ambiance at Oxford and the antiquated English syllabus he was forced to study (it is clear from the Memoirs that he did not much like teaching English either). | | | But Jenny comes across as a woman hopelessly unable to cope with the sexual attention she receives and irrationally fond of a man she knows to be a shit. | | | So, a justification for Amis's novels can be to detach them from the ideology of their author and to read them against the grain - in much the same way as the novels of (say) Evelyn Waugh can serve as critical commentary on what they describe, despite their author's intentions. |
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http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/isj70/amis.htm
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| | Kingsley Amis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Amis's critical interest in science fiction led to New Maps of Hell (1960), his interpretation of the genre's literary qualities. | | | Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: | | | 5 Poets in The Amis Anthology: A Personal Choice of English Verse (1988) |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsley_Amis
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| | Amazon.com: Old Devils: A Novel: Books: Kingsley Amis |
| | Kingsley Amis (the millionaire's father), apparently as cynical a wit as ever there was, masters his prose as well as he shepherds his readers' use of it, wise to the fact that no fool is half so funny as a loved one. | | | Rakish Alun, with enough of his hair left to engender envy, but lacking the stature that would safely have hoisted him above the slings and arrows of envy's snipery, is asking for it. | | | Along the way Amis has characteristic fun with sex, drink, and fakery yet displays a largess of spirit lacking in his other geriatric comedy, Ending Up (1974). |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060971460?v=glance
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| | Amis Biography Review |
| | In general, this book is well-written, and does a good job portraying the main events of Amis' non-writing life, as well as drawing a pretty good portrait of the man himself. | | | I've made it clear before that Sir Kingsley Amis is one of my favorite writers, so I have eagerly searched out material on him. | | | Jacobs is true to his word, which I find a lack in the book. |
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http://www.sff.net/people/richard.horton/amisbio.htm
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| | Kingsley Amis and the Problems of Humour |
| | Amis published his Memoirs in 1991, and it is a great pity that it is not truly worthy of the author. | | | Early and late, Amis is a virtuoso stylist, creating the inflections, accents, idiom that define and expose characters. | | | And the heroine is in a way eternized by Malcolm's adaptation of an old Welsh epic with an interpolated Rhiannon, Malcolm's tribute to "the only woman who'd ever cried for him." The story ends with Rhiannon in an improved situation, attending her daughter Rosemary's reassuringly lovely wedding. |
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http://www.williams.edu/English/faculty/rbell/AmisIntro.html
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| | WAS KINGSLEY AMIS QUEER |
| | Amis needn't have worried---the queer stuff isn't convincing because the author is clearly at a distance, through a telescope darkly. | | | Then: had I seen the personal library of Kingsley Amis in which the author's fondness for alcohol is reflected in the more than 130 books on the subject? | | | Reckoning there might be some rare material amongst, say, his notes for novels, I climbed the winding staircase, one of many in the library, up to the chambers of the Keeper of Rare Manuscripts. |
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http://www.picklehead.com/ian/ian_txt_kingsley.html
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| | Wendy Cope's use of parody in Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis |
| | For example, this is one of the two poems by Kingsley Amis that appear in The Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse 1918-60 (Allott 1962: 331-332). | | | Depending on how we read the book's title, Kingsley Amis —or rather, what he represents as a male poet— is a target of satire. | | | From this point of view, her explicit dedication of the book to Couch and her implicit dedication to Amis are not altogether ironic. |
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http://www.arlindo-correia.com/wendy_cope_article.html
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| | Amazon.com: The King's English : A Guide to Modern Usage: Books: Kingsley Amis |
| | Kingsley Amis's The King's English is as witty and biting as his novels. | | | The famous English author Kingsley Amis's last book The King's English will provide professional writers and those who care about their language, expert guidance in the usage of English. | | | In this book, he takes us from the classic formalism of old-school academic scholars with their groundings in Latin and Greek, through to the street-wise pop-media of the contemporary world. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312206577?v=glance
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| | LRB Ian Hamilton : Sorry to go on like this |
| | The Amis/Larkin correspondence is what makes this book a document worth having and one wishes that perhaps one day these letters might be published as a separate volume, so that we might more clearly track a friendship that, without doubt, made a difference to the lives and works of two of our best writers. | | | Thus we'll get, re Dr Johnson: 'that doesn't mean I can forgive him for resselarse christ what's the matter with this fcuker?' This 'fcuker' is his typewriter, or 'wordprinter', as he calls it. | | | Larkin was inventively foul-mouthed, he hated Middle English, and he was quite good at impersonating David Cecil, or Cess-hole (though not so good as Amis, at whose relentless mimicries Larkin usually guffawed). |
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http://www.lrb.co.uk/v22/n11/hami01_.html
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| | Kingsley Amis |
| | It is not that there is some contradiction between the existence of both God and evil in the world that bothers Amis. | | | This is understandable, of course, but others would say that it is morally wrong to judge God in any such way, and find themselves able to avoid such judgment and, so, its likely conclusion. | | | He is also interesting as an example of the problem of how to live in the twentieth century. |
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http://academics.vmi.edu/PSY_dr/kingsley_amis.htm
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| | Sir Kingsley Amis -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | The books of English novelist Henry Kingsley were popular for half a century. | | | Essay on this English poet by the author, Martin Amis. | | | Today he is beloved by children for his delightful fairy story ‘The Water-Babies'. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9007187?tocId=9007187&query=martin
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| | KINGSLEY AMIS (1922-1995) |
| | Since then, Amis' production has included 20 novels, a book of stories, five essay collections, a popular biography of Rudyard Kipling, two books of his own light verse, and another—the New Oxford—of other people's light verse. | | | Theoreticians of comedy claim sadness is at the heart of all humor. | | | Some of the above material has been drawn from Costa's book, An Appointment with Somerset Maugham & Other literary Encounters, 1994. |
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http://www.rtis.com/reg/bcs/pol/touchstone/November95/luckyj.htm
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| | Masterpiece Theatre Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis |
| | Larkin and Amis remained close throughout their lives, engaging in spirited correspondence (recently collected in The Letters of Kingsley Amis) rife with pun-filled riffs on literature, women and work. | | | This wistful, nostalgic book is considered by many to be Amis's most sentimental work. | | | After service in the army with the Royal Corps of Signals, he completed his university studies and worked as a lecturer in English at Oxford, Swansea, and Cambridge, which provided the academic settings for many of his largely autobiographical stories. |
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/luckyjim/amis.html
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| | Guardian Unlimited Books News The laddish letters of Kingsley Amis |
| | Close followers of his work are likely to take some of the harsher views in them with a pinch of salt. | | | Women appear to me as basically dull, but as basically pathetic too, and while this makes us annoyed it still doesn't allow us to say rude things to them, about them." | | | "I'm pretty sure she thinks I'm not concerned enough about it because I'm not BEHAVING STUPIDLY or TALKING PISS all the time." Parodying William Blake's poem about "the lineaments of gratified desire", Amis added: |
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http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,157750,00.html
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| | Amis, Sir Kingsley on Encyclopedia.com |
| | AMIS, SIR KINGSLEY [Amis, Sir Kingsley], 1922-95, English novelist. | | | Time shift for master of the screen adaptation; WARWICKSHIRE WRITER WORKS HIS MAGIC ON KINGSLEY AMIS COMIC CLASSIC.(Features) | | | Of Amis's other novels, The Anti-Death League (1966) and Colonel Sun: A James Bond Adventure (1968) are espionage novels, while The Green Man (1969) is a ghost story, Girl, 20 (1971) a comedy, and The Riverside Villas Murder (1973) a mystery. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/a/amis-k1in.asp
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| | Amazon.co.uk: The Letters of Kingsley Amis: Books |
| | The one thing that is on display through out this book is the humour and love of the written word, something not diminished by drunken excesses at the Garrick or the right wing fulmination of his later life. | | | Customers who bought books by Kingsley Amis also bought books by these authors: | | | Throughout his life, Sir Kingsley Amis was a prolific, and outrageous correspondent. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0006387837
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| | NIH: Kingsley Amis |
| | The book turned out to be an elaboration of Amis's memoirs, published four years earlier. | | | A more accurate title for this book would be Bar Stories. | | | In the preface Amis described his book as a collection of essays or sketches. |
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http://www.interlog.com/~jfitzger/amis.htm
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| | Sir Kingsley Amis |
| | He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1990. | | | The Book of Bond, or Every Man His Own 007 | | | Author of 2 books about Bond, he was also the first literary successor to Ian Fleming. |
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http://www.klast.net/bond/amis.html
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| | berniE-zine Book Reviews: The Green Man, by Kingsley Amis |
| | Ultimately, when Allington discovers Underhill's ghost's true desires, he also discovers in himself an inner strength and a bond with his daughter that he had let lapse for too long. | | | berniE-zine Book Reviews: The Green Man, by Kingsley Amis | | | I've never been much of a gothic horror fan, but |
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| | The Southern Review: Lucky Jim as I remember him. (Kingsley Amis)@ HighBeam Research |
| | Writer Kingsley Amis is remembered by a long time friend as a talented and complicated man with a keen intellect and a passionate spirit. | | | Kingsley changed little from the beginning of his career in the 1950s to his death at age 73. | | | Dividing his time between the US and Britain, Kingsley was never shy voicing his political or creative opinions. |
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| | Amis, Martin on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Often writing satire so bitterly sardonic that it goes far beyond the caustic comedy of his father's fiction, he has exposed the darker aspects of contemporary English society in his novels. | | | AMIS, MARTIN [Amis, Martin] ā´m&, 1949-, English novelist; son of Kingsley Amis. | | | The younger Amis, who turned from literary journalism to fiction, invites comparison with his father through his choice of career and style. |
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| | Kingsley Amis - Penguin Group (USA) Authors - Penguin Group (USA) |
| | He published a variety of other work, including a survey of science fiction entitled New Maps of Hell (1960); Rudyard Kipling and His World (1975); The Golden Age of Science Fiction (1981); Collected Poems (1979); and his Memoirs (1991). | | | After his death in October 1995, Keith Waterhouse described him as 'a great storyteller, although he was much more than a storyteller,' while John Mortimer wrote: 'He was a genuine comic writer, probably the best after P. Wodehouse... | | | After the publication of Lucky Jim in 1954, which has become a modern classic, Kingsley Amis wrote over twenty novels, including The Alteration (1976), winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, The Old Devils (1986), winner of the Booker Prize, and The Biographer's Moustache (1995), which was to be his last book. |
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http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000000966,00.html?...
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| | St Charles Public Library - Short Bios, Kingsley Amis & Martin Amis |
| | The King’s English: A Guide to Modern Usage 423.1 AMIS, * | | | Amis died after suffering injuries from a fall in 1995. | | | In honor of Father’s Day, St. Charles Library’s Readers Services is celebrating the works of two famous literary fathers and sons: Andre Dubus and his son Andre Dubus III and Kingsley Amis and his son Martin. |
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http://www.st-charles.lib.il.us/readers_service/bios/amis.htm
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| | Focus on Amis |
| | Amis' ascent from the obscurity of lower-middle-class London was largely self-willed. | | | Amis was born in London as the only son of a business clerk. | | | He become a man of outrageous wit and genius, and gained reputation as a "supreme clubman, boozer and blimp." A radical in his young adulthood, Amis was later know for his conservative critique of contemporary life and manners. |
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http://www.billbrandt.com/Shop/Focus/focusonamis.html
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| | Kingsley Amis: The Alteration |
| | Perhaps the weakest part of Amis's novel is the dialogue. | | | Kingsley Amis's alternate history is set in a world in which the Protestant Reformation was severely crippled in its infancy when Martin Luther became Pope Germanian I. The novel is set as the English a mourning the death of King Stephen III in 1976. | | | In the end, Amis briefly leaves his focal characters and turns his attention to the pope. |
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http://www.sfsite.com/~silverag/amis.html
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| | Guardian Unlimited Books Authors Amis, Kingsley |
| | Kingsley Amis was one of the century's most prolific letter writers, so editing his correspondence was never going to be easy. | | | You Can't Do Both (1994) is semi-autobiographical; in 1991 he published his Memoirs, the barbed nature of which shocked reviewers. | | | Eric Jacobs completed a biography in 1998; Martin Amis is currently working on a memoir about his relationship with his father ("almost a pro bono duty"). |
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http://books.guardian.co.uk/authors/author/0,5917,-5,00.html
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| | Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis - Penguin Group (USA) |
| | Amis caught the mood of post-war restiveness in a book which, though socially significant, was, and still is, extremely funny’ – Anthony Burgess | | | Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red-brick universities. | | | Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis - Penguin Group (USA) |
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http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0140186301,00.html
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| | Find in a Library: Critical essays on Kingsley Amis |
| | Amis, Kingsley, -- 1922- -- Criticism and interpretation. | | | Find in a Library: Critical essays on Kingsley Amis | | | WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries. |
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http://worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/ow/e4c6b2c7ed5f6db8a19afeb4da09e526.html
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| | BBC - BBC Four - Audio Interviews - Kingsley Amis |
| | One of the most prominent figures of the post-war literary scene, Kingsley Amis is still best known for his first book, the satirical novel Lucky Jim. | | | You will need RealPlayer to access these clips. | | | BBC - BBC Four - Audio Interviews - Kingsley Amis |
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