Results for "Amis, Kingsley"

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 reader... Read More about Lucky Jim

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 reade... Read More about Lucky Jim

Booker Prize WinnerA pub gathering of elderly married couples devolves into booze-inflected reminiscing—and complaining—in this “sharp and funny” English comedy about marriage, aging, and friendship (The Washington Post).   Age has done everything except mellow the characters in Kingsley Amis’s... Read More about The Old Devils

"Kingsley Amis's drink writing is better than anybody else's, ever." EsquireNew in giftable hardcover, with an introduction by Christopher Hitchens-a collection of witty and deeply informed writings on wine, beer, and cocktails, from one of the all-time experts.Kingsley Amis was one of the great mas... Read More about Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis

The owner of a haunted country inn contends with death, fatherhood, romantic woes, and alcoholism in this humorous and “rattling good ghost story” from a Booker Prize–winning author (The New York Times)   Maurice Allington has reached middle age and is haunted by death. As he says, “I honestly ... Read More about The Green Man

A group of disgruntled septuagenarians prepare for their final days in this dark and “very funny” English novel about death and the inevitability of growing old (The Observer) Everyone wants a comfortable place to die, and Kingsley Amis’s characters have found it in Tuppeny-happeny Cottage, where as... Read More about Ending Up (NYRB Classics)