Kingsley Amis (1922–1995)

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Kingsley Amis is generally considered one of the "angry young men" of the 1950s. He was born in London in 1922 and educated at the City of London School. He received a degree in English language and literature from St. John's College, Oxford, in 1947. Until 1961 Amis lectured in English at visa mer University College, Swansea, and for the following two years at Cambridge. In 1947 Amis published his first collection of poems, Bright November. Frame of Mind followed in 1953 and Poems: Fantasy Portraits in 1954. His first novel, Lucky Jim (1954), established his reputation as a writer. He followed with That Uncertain Feeling (1956), and I Like It Here (1958). A longtime James Bond devotee, Amis wrote a James Bond adventure after the death of Ian Fleming in 1964. Amis's study of the famous spy was titled The James Bond Dossier (1965). Amis received the Booker Prize for the Old Devils (1986). Amis's later works include Memoirs (1990), and The King's English, a collection of essays on the craft of writing well. Amis was knighted in 1990. He died in 1995. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre

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Inkluderar även: Robert Markham (1)

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Serier

Everyday Drinking

Spectrum Anthology

Jenny Bunn

Verk av Kingsley Amis

Populära Nyliga

Lyckliga Jim (1954) 5,728 exemplar

De gamla stötarna (1986) 1,338 exemplar

The Green Man (1969) 890 exemplar

Förändringen (1976) 665 exemplar

Ta en flicka som du : roman (1960) 493 exemplar

The King's English: A Guide to Modern Usage (1997) 480 exemplar

James Bond 007: Colonel Sun (1968) 443 exemplar

En viss fet engelsman : roman (1963) 430 exemplar

Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis (1983) 420 exemplar

Jakes grej (1978) 415 exemplar

The Anti-Death League (1966) 358 exemplar

Girl, 20 (1971) 348 exemplar

Stanley and the Women (1984) 318 exemplar

New maps of hell (1960) 301 exemplar

Ending Up (1974) 275 exemplar

Difficulties with Girls (1988) 247 exemplar

Memoirs (1991) 230 exemplar

The New Oxford Book of English Light Verse (1978) — Redaktör — 221 exemplar

The Riverside Villas Murder (1973) 205 exemplar

The Folks That Live on the Hill (1985) 195 exemplar

The Russian Girl (1992) 186 exemplar

Den ljuva plågan (1955) 178 exemplar

I Want it Now (1968) 168 exemplar

I Like It Here (1958) 167 exemplar

Russian Hide and Seek (1980) 159 exemplar

The James Bond Dossier (1966) 154 exemplar

The Biographer's Moustache (1995) 151 exemplar

The Letters of Kingsley Amis (2011) 146 exemplar

You Can't Do Both (1994) 130 exemplar

Spectrum (1961) — Redaktör; Redaktör — 125 exemplar

Spectrum 5 (1952) — Redaktör — 122 exemplar

Spectrum 2 (1962) — Redaktör — 117 exemplar

Spectrum 3 (1963) — Redaktör — 114 exemplar

The Crime of the Century (1975) 114 exemplar

Spectrum 4 (1965) — Redaktör; Bidragsgivare — 111 exemplar

The Egyptologists (1869) 88 exemplar

My Enemy's Enemy (1962) 88 exemplar

Collected Short Stories (1980) 78 exemplar

Dear Illusion: Collected Stories (New York Review Books Classics) (1972) 76 exemplar

Penguin Modern Poets 2: Kingsley Amis, Dom Moraes, Peter Porter (1962) 71 exemplar

On Drink (1897) — Författare — 69 exemplar

The Golden Age of Science Fiction (1981) 69 exemplar

Rudyard Kipling and His World (1975) 66 exemplar

The Faber Popular Reciter (1978) — Redaktör — 64 exemplar

Collected Poems 1944-1979 (1979) 63 exemplar

What Became of Jane Austen and Other Essays (1970) 61 exemplar

Mr. Barrett's Secret and Other Stories (1993) 48 exemplar

Every Day Drinking (1983) 42 exemplar

Complete Stories (1900) 38 exemplar

We Are All Guilty (1991) 38 exemplar

James Bond 007: Colonel Sun (Graphic Novel) (2005) 34 exemplar

The Amis Collection: Selected Non-fiction (1672) 32 exemplar

The Book of Bond: or Every Man His Own 007 (1965) 29 exemplar

A Kingsley Amis Omnibus [Jake's Thing / Stanley and the Women / The Old Devils] (1980) 27 exemplar

The Amis Anthology: Personal Choice of English Verse (1988) — Redaktör — 25 exemplar

Lucky Jim/The Rachel Papers (1864) 23 exemplar

How's Your Glass?: Quizzical Look at Drinks and Drinking (1984) 14 exemplar

The Great British songbook (1986) — Redaktör — 11 exemplar

A Look Round the Estate (1967) 9 exemplar

The Pleasure of Poetry: From His "Daily Mirror" Column (1990) 8 exemplar

A case of samples: Poems 1946-1956 (1947) 6 exemplar

Dear Philip, Dear Kingsley: Starring Alan Bennett & Robert Hardy (BBC Radio Collection) (2002) 6 exemplar

All The Blood Within Me (2014) 6 exemplar

The Amis Story Anthology: A Personal Choice of Short Stories (1992) 5 exemplar

L' Univers de la Science-Fiction. Préface de Jean-Louis Curtis (1962) 4 exemplar

Take A Girl Like You [1970 film] — Screenwriter — 4 exemplar

Harold's Years: Impressions from the "New Statesman" and "The Spectator" (1977) — Redaktör — 4 exemplar

Hemingway in Space [short fiction] 4 exemplar

Only Two Can Play [1962 film] — Writer — 3 exemplar

Folks That Live on the Hill Sample Chapter (1990) 2 exemplar

Robert Graves una vida de poeta : Sala Goya, 5-31 diciembre, 2002 (2002) 2 exemplar

Mason's Life [short fiction] 2 exemplar

Kingsley Amis: In Life and Letters (1991) 2 exemplar

Colllected letters 2 exemplar

Lucky Jim's Politics (1968) 2 exemplar

Bright November (1964) 2 exemplar

Journey Into the Past 2 exemplar

Poemas antirrománticos (2018) 2 exemplar

The Darkwater Hall Mystery (1978) 2 exemplar

Geheimakte 007 James Bond (1989) 2 exemplar

Socialism and the Intellectuals. (1957) 2 exemplar

Who Or What Was It? 1 exemplar

A Frame of Mind: Eighteen Poems (1953) 1 exemplar

Interesting Things (1977) 1 exemplar

Conversations 1 exemplar

Poems (Fantasy poetry series - no.22) (1954) 1 exemplar

Amis Kingsley 1 exemplar

Something Strange 1 exemplar

Colonel Sun [hb] 1 exemplar

סטנלי והנשים 1 exemplar

An arts policy? (1979) 1 exemplar

ג'ים בר-מזל : רומאן 1 exemplar

Rare Kingsley Amis / BOOK OF BOND OR EVERY MAN HIS OWN 007 1st Edition 1965 1 exemplar

El coronel Sun 1 exemplar

Staří parťáci (1992) 1 exemplar

I Like it Here and That Uncertain Feeling 1 exemplar

Too Much Trouble (in Penguin Modern Stories 11 - AMIS) 1 exemplar

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Fahrenheit 451 (1953) — Bidragsgivare, vissa utgåvor — 52,336 exemplar

Mannen som var Torsdag : en mardröm (1908) — Inledning, vissa utgåvor — 6,867 exemplar

Landet Ingenstans : (Erewhon) (1872) — Efterord, vissa utgåvor — 2,060 exemplar

Bring the Jubilee (1953) — Inledning, vissa utgåvor — 844 exemplar

A Pocket Book of Modern Verse (1954) — Bidragsgivare, vissa utgåvor — 435 exemplar

The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories (1989) — Bidragsgivare — 423 exemplar

A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen (2009) — Bidragsgivare — 360 exemplar

The Best of Modern Humor (1983) — Bidragsgivare — 287 exemplar

The New Poetry (1962) — Bidragsgivare — 266 exemplar

The Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse (1950) — Bidragsgivare, vissa utgåvor — 263 exemplar

The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse (1983) — Bidragsgivare — 231 exemplar

British Poetry Since 1945 (1970) — Bidragsgivare, vissa utgåvor — 164 exemplar

The war of the worlds, The time machine, and selected short stories (1963) — Förord, vissa utgåvor — 151 exemplar

Mr Jelly Roll : den märkliga historien om Jelly Roll Morton, en kreol från New Orleans och "Jazzens uppfinnare" :… (1950) — Förord, vissa utgåvor — 149 exemplar

The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories (2015) — Bidragsgivare — 132 exemplar

The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories (2007) — Bidragsgivare — 130 exemplar

6th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F (1961) — Bidragsgivare — 122 exemplar

The Second Penguin Book of English Short Stories (1972) — Bidragsgivare, vissa utgåvor — 116 exemplar

Five-Odd (1954) — Bidragsgivare — 113 exemplar

The State of the Language [1990] (1979) — Bidragsgivare — 89 exemplar

Best SF: 1971 (1972) — Bidragsgivare — 84 exemplar

Science Fiction: The Future (1971) — Bidragsgivare — 83 exemplar

The State of the Language [1980] (1980) — Bidragsgivare — 81 exemplar

The Grim Reader: Writings on Death, Dying, and Living On (1997) — Bidragsgivare — 59 exemplar

The Best of British SF 2 (1977) — Bidragsgivare — 57 exemplar

The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories 2 (1656) — Bidragsgivare — 49 exemplar

Turning Points: Essays on the Art of Science Fiction (1977) — Bidragsgivare — 46 exemplar

The Road to Science Fiction #5: The British Way (1998) 45 exemplar

Best SF: 1973 (1974) — Bidragsgivare — 42 exemplar

The Lucifer Society (1971) — Förord, vissa utgåvor; Bidragsgivare — 39 exemplar

The Television Late-night Horror Omnibus (1993) — Bidragsgivare — 39 exemplar

Science Fiction: A Collection of Critical Essays (1976) — Författare — 36 exemplar

The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century Protest (1998) — Bidragsgivare — 30 exemplar

The Young Oxford Book of Nightmares (2000) — Bidragsgivare — 23 exemplar

Poet to Poet : Tennyson, selected by Kingsley Amis (1973) — Redaktör — 17 exemplar

Rejser i tid og rum : en bog om science fiction (1973) — Författare, vissa utgåvor — 12 exemplar

Selected Stories (1972) — Redaktör — 11 exemplar

Ghostly, grim and gruesome: An anthology (1976) — Bidragsgivare — 7 exemplar

Armchair Horror Collection (1994) — Bidragsgivare — 7 exemplar

Words: Reflections on the Uses of Language (1975) 6 exemplar

The Fireside Treasury of Modern Humor (1963) — Bidragsgivare — 5 exemplar

Lucky Jim [1957 film] — Original book — 3 exemplar

The Green Man [1990 TV series] — Original book — 2 exemplar

Haunted: The Ferryman [1974 TV movie] (2012) — Original Story — 2 exemplar

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Namn enligt folkbokföringen: Amis, Kingsley William
Andra namn: Markham, Robert (pseudonym)
Födelsedag: 1922-04-16
Avled: 1995-10-22
Begravningsplats: Golders Green Crematorium, London, England
Kön: male
Nationalitet: UK
Födelseort: Clapham, Wandsworth, London, England, UK
Dödsort: St Pancras Hospital, London, England, UK
Dödsorsak: stroke
Bostadsorter: London, England, UK
Wales, UK
Utbildning: Oxford University (BA|1949| St John's College)
City of London School
Yrken: Writer
Relationer: Amis, Martin (son)
Organisationer: Angry Young Men
Communist Party of Great Britain
Royal Corps of Signals
Priser och utmärkelser: Guest of Honour, Eastercon, UK (1961)
Order of the British Empire (Commander) (1981)
Knight Bachelor (1990)

Medlemmar

Recensioner

Lucky Jim av Kingsley Amis

Interesting, this. I wasn't really interested in the setting, nor did I find the characters particularly engaging. Pllot-wise it felt a bit perfunctory, like a string of set-pieces. And while it is funny, it's not _that_ funny. On top of that the resolution is a bit too neat - the title almost feels like an excuse for Kingsley not having come up with a more convincing denouement. And yet, and yet, the writing is - the actual sentences are - just great. And almost surprisingly that's enough.

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thisisstephenbetts | 151 andra recensioner | Nov 25, 2023 |

La suerte de Jim av Kingsley Amis

La suerte de Jim
Kingsley Amis
Publicado: 1954 | 242 páginas
Novela Humor
Serie: Áncora & Delfín #1090

Lasuerte de Jim esun clásico de la literatura inglesa y de la narrativa satírica de todos lostiempos que, sorprendentemente, nunca se había traducido al castellano. Estanovela irónica y mordaz, publicada por vez primera en 1954, relata las andanzasde Jim Dixon, un anodino profesor de historia medieval de una provincianauniversidad inglesa que se desenvuelve con torpeza entre sus colegas alintentar mantener su flamante puesto de profesor de segunda y complacer a sussuperiores. Através de sus enredos y desventuras, Kingsley Amis traza una sátira brillantede la vida inglesa con una ironía finísima e hilarante. Éstees uno de los clásicos más divertidos de la historia de la literatura, unanovela que se convirtió en un mito popular de la literatura anglosajona deposguerra y que no ha perdido un ápice de su encanto.… (mer)

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libreriarofer | 151 andra recensioner | Nov 22, 2023 |

Colonel Sun: A James Bond Adventure av Kingsley Amis

The first of the official James Bond novels that was completed after Fleming’s death. The difference does show. Whilst there are very flaming, light touches in places, a lot of the time bond seems inaccessible here and also a different sort of character. With a blend of Greek smugglers and is a combination of Colombo and caring Bay. This does seem like a rather distorted repeat in many respects.

The locations are suitably unusual, and for its time exotic, but this isn’t the world travelling excitement fest that is the normal offering from Fleming. Bond is more cautious, cynical, but remains driven, loyal, and as charming as ever.

A good effort, but this is no Fleming novel. I see this as more of an interlude between the bonds great adventures. Some of the really great Fleming like ideas, including the attack on Quarterdeck, the capture of M, and what comes next door, crushed by lack lustre, and dreary passages.… (mer)

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aadyer | 12 andra recensioner | Nov 12, 2023 |

Colonel Sun: A James Bond Adventure av Kingsley Amis

Not as irritating as a lot of Fleming's other novels. For some reason, Bond's dialogue feels less "chummy" and contrived than in the Fleming novels. But it is still pretty boring, with much of the action taking place on a boat. The villain, an Anglophile Chinese general, could have been interesting (and I think this may be the only novel where the omniscient narrator strays from Bond to the villain) but his presence is fairly minimal.

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jklugman | 12 andra recensioner | Nov 10, 2023 |

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