Kingsley Amis – es ya un clásico de la literatura inglesa y célebre por su humor afilado y mordaz. Fue un reconocido novelista, poeta, crítico literario y profesor, autor de una veintena de novelas, relatos breves, tres libros de poesía, guiones de radio y televisión y libros de crítica literaria y social. Fue galardonado con casi todos los premios literarios en lengua inglesa, incluidos el Booker Prize y el Sommerset Maugham. Fue el padre del también novelista Martin Amis.
43 Ebooks by Kingsley Amis
Kingsley Amis: New Maps of Hell
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 scie …
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Kingsley Amis: All the Blood Within Me
Boarding the train at Euston, Alec begins the journey to his former lover’s funeral. Theirs was an affair acknowledged and so permanent that they called themselves ‘the Trio’, but now only two of the …
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Kingsley Amis: Lucky Jim
‘A brilliantly and preposterously funny book’ Guardian’A flawless comic novel … I loved it then, as I do now. It has always made me laugh out loud’ Helen Dunmore, The Times Jim Dixon has accidental …
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Kingsley Amis: Lucky Jim
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 repr …
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Kingsley Amis: Complete Stories
The short stories of Kingsley Amis – the great master of post-war comic prose – are dark, playful, moving, surprising and extremely funny. This definitive collection gathers all Amis’s short fiction …
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Kingsley Amis: Riverside Villas Murder
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 room bleeding from the head. What was a suspected s …
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Kingsley Amis: Difficulties With Girls
In Kingsley Amis’s Difficulties With Girls, Jenny Bunn and Patrick Standish have settled into London life with their troubled courtship long behind them. Patrick works in publishing and Jenny teaches …
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Kingsley Amis: Ending Up
At Tuppenny-hapenny Cottage in the English countryside, five elderly people live together in rancorous disharmony. Adela Bastable bosses the house, as her brother Bernard passes his days thinking up …
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Kingsley Amis: Girl, 20
Douglas Yandell, a young-ish music critic, is enlisted by Kitty Vandervane to keep an eye on her roving husband – the eminent conductor and would-be radical Sir Roy – as he embarks on yet another aff …
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Kingsley Amis: I Want It Now
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 heires …
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Kingsley Amis: One Fat Englishman
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 offe …
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Kingsley Amis: Take A Girl Like You
In Kingsley Amis’s 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 per …
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Kingsley Amis: That Uncertain Feeling
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 …
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Kingsley Amis: Anti-Death League
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 trave …
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Kingsley Amis: Folks That Live On The Hill
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 niece falls into strange hands, when his brother threa …
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Kingsley Amis: King’s English
The King’s English is Kingsley Amis’s authoritative and witty guide to the use and abuse of the English language. A scourge of illiteracy and a thorn in the side of pretension, Amis provides indispen …
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Kingsley Amis: Dear Illusion
‘I suppose it was conceited of me. But it was fun. And I felt like getting a bit of my own back on some of the people who’d conned and flattered me into wasting all those years.’ In this wry, piercin …
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Kingsley Amis: Green Man
Like all good coaching inns, The Green Man is said to boast a resident ghost: Dr Thomas Underhill, a notorious seventeenth-century practitioner of black arts and sexual deviancy. However, the landlor …
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Kingsley Amis: Stanley And The Women
Just when Stanley Duke thinks it safe to sink into middle age, his son goes insane. As if that wasn’t terrible enough, Stanley finds himself beset on all sides by women – neurotic, cantankerous, half …
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Kingsley Amis: Old Devils
Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one main ambition left in life: to drink Wales dry. But their routine is both shaken and stirred when they are joined by professional Wels …
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Kingsley Amis: Memoirs
Elegant, provocative and hugely entertaining, Kingsley Amis’s memoirs are filled with anecdotes, experiences and portraits of famous friends, family, acquaintances (and a few eminent foes). From his …
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Kingsley Amis: Alteration
Hubert Anvil is a 10 year old boy blessed with the voice of an angel. The Church hierarchy decrees that Hubert should be turned into a castrato – an alteration that could bring Hubert fame and fortun …
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Kingsley Amis: Jake’s Thing
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 disob …
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Kingsley Amis: You Can’t Do Both
Robin Davies knows how to look after number one. Raised in a bland suburb of South London in the 1930s, Robin longs for the freedom to do what he wants. When he escapes to study in Oxford, he meets N …
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Amis Kingsley Amis: Everyday Drinking
Here is the beloved, bestselling compendium of Kingsley Amis’s wisdom on the cherished subject of drinking. Along with a series of well-tested recipes (including a cocktail called the Lucky Jim) the …
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Kingsley Amis: Jim cel norocos
Viața lui Jim Dixon curge între cariera universitară, care-i cere eforturi de adaptare supraomenești, și o iubire ciudată, ce-l ține aproape de prietena lui, Margaret. Dar totul îi este împotrivă: Ma …
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Kingsley Amis: Collected Poems
‘One of the very best of our poets’ Anthony Powell Kingsley Amis wrote poems throughout his life, turning his acerbic, bracing perceptiveness on the same subjects that fill his novels: lust, lost lov …
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Kingsley Amis: Amis Collection
‘Amis has no faults. He is clever, witty, ironical’ Guardian What 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? T …
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Kingsley Amis: Cuentos completos
Esta recopilación reúne por primera vez y en un solo volumen la totalidad de la prosa breve de Kingsley Amis, uno de los más reconocidos maestros de la edad de oro de la narrativa inglesa. Un agente …
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Kingsley Amis: Stanley y las mujeres
Stanley Duke se adentra plácidamente en la edad madura. Nada parece importunar su vida acomodada hasta que, de repente, su hijo Steve se vuelve loco. A partir de ese momento, Stanley se ve acosado po …
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Kingsley Amis: Lucky Jim
Jim Dixon se encuentra en una situación delicada. No sabe si va a poder conservar su puesto de profesor de Historia Medieval en la universidad, ya que para ello tendría que publicar un artículo que l …
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Kingsley Amis: Colonel Sun
Colonel Sun was the first James Bond novel published after the death of Ian Fleming. Penned by one of Britain's finest writers, Kingsley Amis, this new edition celebrates the novel's 55th a …
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Kingsley Amis: Everyday Drinking
Kingsley Amis was one of the great masters of comic prose, and no subject was dearer to him than the art and practice of imbibing. This new volume brings together the best of his three out-of-print w …
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