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Kingsley Amis


Born
in Clapham, Wandsworth, London, England, The United Kingdom
April 16, 1922

Died
October 22, 1995

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Best known novels of British writer Sir Kingsley William Amis include Lucky Jim (1954) and The Old Devils (1986).

This English poet, critic, and teacher composed more than twenty-three collections, short stories, radio and television scripts, and books of social and literary criticism. He fathered Martin Amis.

William Robert Amis, a clerk of a mustard manufacturer, fathered him. He began his education at the city of London school, and went up to college of Saint John, Oxford, in April 1941 to read English; he met Philip Larkin and formed the most important friendship of his life. After only a year, the Army called him for service in July 1942. After serving as a lieutenant in the royal corps of signals in the Second World War, Amis
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Average rating: 3.64 · 56,556 ratings · 5,272 reviews · 166 distinct works 鈥� Similar authors
Lucky Jim

3.75 avg rating — 31,107 ratings — published 1954 — 123 editions
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The Old Devils

3.31 avg rating — 4,000 ratings — published 1986 — 55 editions
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Colonel Sun (James Bond, #15)

3.57 avg rating — 3,096 ratings — published 1968 — 68 editions
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The Green Man

3.54 avg rating — 2,432 ratings — published 1969 — 57 editions
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The Alteration

3.63 avg rating — 1,687 ratings — published 1976 — 51 editions
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Everyday Drinking: The Dist...

3.77 avg rating — 1,440 ratings — published 1984 — 26 editions
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Ending Up

3.58 avg rating — 899 ratings — published 1974 — 37 editions
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Girl, 20

3.49 avg rating — 919 ratings — published 1971 — 36 editions
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Take a Girl Like You

3.31 avg rating — 945 ratings — published 1960 — 44 editions
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One Fat Englishman

3.30 avg rating — 861 ratings — published 1963 — 33 editions
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“If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.”
Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim

“Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.”
Kingsley Amis

“Dixon was alive again. Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way; not for him the slow, gracious wandering from the halls of sleep, but a summary, forcible ejection. He lay sprawled, too wicked to move, spewed up like a broken spider-crab on the tarry shingle of morning. The light did him harm, but not as much as looking at things did; he resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again. A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its 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.”
Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim

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