The King`s English, Kingsley Amis

Автор: Amis Kingsley
Название: Lucky Jim
ISBN: 1590175751 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781590175750
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: A hilarious satire about college life and high class manners, this is a classic of postwar English literature.

Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jim remains as trenchant, withering, and eloquently misanthropic as when it first scandalized readers in 1954. This is the story of Jim Dixon, a hapless lecturer in medieval history at a provincial university who knows better than most that "there was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones." Kingsley Amis's scabrous debut leads the reader through a gallery of emphatically English bores, cranks, frauds, and neurotics with whom Dixon must contend in one way or another in order to hold on to his cushy academic perch and win the girl of his fancy.

More than just a merciless satire of cloistered college life and stuffy postwar manners, Lucky Jim is an attack on the forces of boredom, whatever form they may take, and a work of art that at once distills and extends an entire tradition of English comic writing, from Fielding and Dickens through Wodehouse and Waugh. As Christopher Hitchens has written, "If you can picture Bertie or Jeeves being capable of actual malice, and simultaneously imagine Evelyn Waugh forgetting about original sin, you have the combination of innocence and experience that makes this short romp so imperishable."

Автор: Martin Amis
Название: Lionel Asbo
ISBN: 0099582058 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099582052
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Lionel Asbo - a very violent but not very successful young criminal - is going about his morning duties in a London prison when he learns that he has just won GBP139,999,999.50 on the National Lottery. This is not necessarily good news for his ward and nephew, the orphaned Des Pepperdine, who still has reason to fear his uncle`s implacable vengeance.

Автор: Amis, Martin
Название: The Zone of Interest
ISBN: 0224099752 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780224099752
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Описание: Newly arrived in the Zone of Interest - the name given to the outer perimeter of the camp at Auschwitz - Golo Thomsen, an official with important connections in Berlin, promptly and ill-advisedly falls in love with the wife of the camp commandant. We know that horror and cruelty are possible in such a setting. But what about love, comedy, heroism?

Автор: Amis, Kingsley
Название: Everyday Drinking
ISBN: 1408803836 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781408803837
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Описание: A gift for anyone who loves good liquor and high-proof prose: a collection of hilarious and deeply informed writings about drink from one of the all-time authorities. With an Introduction by Christopher Hitchens.

Автор: Martin Amis
Название: House Of Meetings
ISBN: 009948868X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099488682
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Описание: `The best thing Martin Amis has done in fiction for years` Literary Review There were conjugal visits in the slave camps of the USSR.

Автор: Amis, K.
Название: The Green Man
ISBN: 0099461072 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099461074
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Описание: 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. Led by an anxious desire to vindicate his sanity, Allington strives to uncover the key to Underhill`s satanic powers.

Автор: Kingsley Amis
Название: The Folks That Live On The Hill
ISBN: 0141194308 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141194301
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Описание: Harry Caldecote is a convivial academic who devotes his life to others. He is on call when his alcoholic niece falls into strange hands, when his brother threatens to emulate Wordsworth, when his son`s lesbian lodger is beaten up by her girlfriend. He endures misplaced seductions just to keep the peace at the King`s pub in Shepherd`s Hill.

Автор: Kingsley Amis
Название: Difficulties With Girls
ISBN: 0141194227 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141194226
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Описание: Jenny Bunn and Patrick Standish have settled into London life with their troubled courtship long behind them. Patrick works in publishing and Jenny teaches sick children in a hospital. They have reached a certain level of maturity, or so they think.

Автор: Amis, Kingsley
Название: Memoirs
ISBN: 0099461064 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099461067
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Описание: 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).

Автор: Kingsley Amis
Название: Lucky Jim
ISBN: 0241956846 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241956847
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Описание: Jix Dixon has a terrible job at a second-rate university. His life is full of things he could happily do without. If he can just deliver a lecture on Merrie England, a moderately successful career surely awaits him. But without luck, life is never simple...

Автор: Kingsley Amis
Название: New Maps of Hell
ISBN: 0141198621 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141198620
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Описание: A collection of essays that introduces readers to the wonders and value of science fiction writing.