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Kingsley Amis (1922–1995)

Autor(a) de Lucky Jim

96+ Works 17,645 Membros 360 Críticas 35 Favorited

About the Author

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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
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Obras por Kingsley Amis

Lucky Jim (1954) 5,784 exemplares
The Old Devils (1986) 1,353 exemplares
The Green Man (1969) 902 exemplares
The Alteration (1976) — Autor — 680 exemplares
Take a Girl Like You (1960) 508 exemplares
James Bond 007: Colonel Sun (1968) 453 exemplares
One Fat Englishman (1963) 436 exemplares
Jake's Thing (1978) 421 exemplares
The Anti-Death League (1966) 363 exemplares
Girl, 20 (1971) 354 exemplares
Stanley and the Women (1984) 325 exemplares
New maps of hell (1960) 305 exemplares
Ending Up (1974) 279 exemplares
Difficulties with Girls (1988) 250 exemplares
Memoirs (1991) 229 exemplares
The New Oxford Book of English Light Verse (1978) — Editor — 226 exemplares
The Riverside Villas Murder (1973) 206 exemplares
The Folks That Live on the Hill (1985) 194 exemplares
The Russian Girl (1992) 186 exemplares
That Uncertain Feeling (1955) 180 exemplares
I Want it Now (1968) 169 exemplares
I Like It Here (1958) 166 exemplares
Russian Hide and Seek (1980) 163 exemplares
The James Bond Dossier (1966) 157 exemplares
The Biographer's Moustache (1995) 151 exemplares
The Letters of Kingsley Amis (2011) 149 exemplares
You Can't Do Both (1994) 131 exemplares
Spectrum (1961) — Editor; Editor — 127 exemplares
Spectrum 5 (1952) — Editor — 120 exemplares
Spectrum 2 (1962) — Editor — 118 exemplares
The Crime of the Century (1975) 117 exemplares
Spectrum 3 (1963) — Editor — 115 exemplares
Spectrum 4 (1965) — Editor; Contribuidor — 112 exemplares
The Egyptologists (1869) 89 exemplares
My Enemy's Enemy (1962) 88 exemplares
Collected Short Stories (1980) 78 exemplares
On Drink (1897) — Autor — 71 exemplares
The Golden Age of Science Fiction (1981) 69 exemplares
Rudyard Kipling and His World (1975) 68 exemplares
The Faber Popular Reciter (1978) — Editor — 65 exemplares
Collected Poems 1944-1979 (1979) 64 exemplares
Every Day Drinking (1983) 44 exemplares
Complete Stories (1900) 39 exemplares
We Are All Guilty (1991) 39 exemplares
The Amis Anthology: Personal Choice of English Verse (1988) — Editor — 26 exemplares
Lucky Jim/The Rachel Papers (1864) 23 exemplares
Lucky Jim (1993) 14 exemplares
The Great British songbook (1986) — Editor — 11 exemplares
A Look Round the Estate (1967) 10 exemplares
All The Blood Within Me (2014) 6 exemplares
Take A Girl Like You [1970 film] — Screenwriter — 4 exemplares
Winter's Tales I (1955) 4 exemplares
The Darkwater Hall Mystery (1978) 3 exemplares
Only Two Can Play [1962 film] — Writer — 3 exemplares
Colllected letters 2 exemplares
Lucky Jim's Politics (1968) 2 exemplares
Poemas antirrománticos (2018) 2 exemplares
Journey Into the Past 2 exemplares
Geheimakte 007 James Bond (1989) 2 exemplares
Bright November (1964) 2 exemplares
An arts policy? (1979) 1 exemplar
Interesting Things (1977) 1 exemplar
Tanatonautas (1997) 1 exemplar
Something Strange 1 exemplar
Amis Kingsley 1 exemplar
Conversations 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Fahrenheit 451 (1953) — Contribuidor, algumas edições53,498 exemplares
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (1908) — Introdução, algumas edições7,011 exemplares
Erewhon (1872) — Posfácio, algumas edições2,085 exemplares
Bring the Jubilee (1953) — Introdução, algumas edições858 exemplares
A Pocket Book of Modern Verse (1954) — Contribuidor, algumas edições443 exemplares
The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories (1989) — Contribuidor — 429 exemplares
The Best of Modern Humor (1983) — Contribuidor — 291 exemplares
The New Poetry (1962) — Contribuidor — 267 exemplares
The Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse (1950) — Contribuidor, algumas edições264 exemplares
The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse (1983) — Contribuidor — 236 exemplares
British Poetry Since 1945 (1970) — Contribuidor, algumas edições166 exemplares
The war of the worlds, The time machine, and selected short stories (1963) — Prefácio, algumas edições155 exemplares
The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories (2015) — Contribuidor — 137 exemplares
The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories (2007) — Contribuidor — 133 exemplares
6th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F (1961) — Contribuidor — 124 exemplares
The Second Penguin Book of English Short Stories (1972) — Contribuidor, algumas edições118 exemplares
Five-Odd (1954) — Contribuidor — 113 exemplares
The State of the Language [1990] (1979) — Contribuidor — 88 exemplares
Best SF: 1971 (1972) — Contribuidor — 86 exemplares
Science Fiction: The Future (1971) — Contribuidor — 84 exemplares
The State of the Language [1980] (1980) — Contribuidor — 82 exemplares
The Grim Reader: Writings on Death, Dying, and Living On (1997) — Contribuidor — 60 exemplares
The Best of British SF 2 (1977) — Contribuidor — 59 exemplares
The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories 2 (1656) — Contribuidor — 50 exemplares
Turning Points: Essays on the Art of Science Fiction (1977) — Contribuidor — 47 exemplares
Best SF: 1973 (1974) — Contribuidor — 43 exemplares
The Little Book of Horrors (1992) — Contribuidor — 41 exemplares
The Lucifer Society (1971) — Prefácio, algumas edições; Contribuidor — 41 exemplares
The Television Late-night Horror Omnibus (1993) — Contribuidor — 39 exemplares
Science Fiction: A Collection of Critical Essays (1976) — Autor — 36 exemplares
The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century Protest (1998) — Contribuidor — 31 exemplares
The Young Oxford Book of Nightmares (2000) — Contribuidor — 23 exemplares
Poet to Poet : Tennyson, selected by Kingsley Amis (1973) — Editor — 18 exemplares
Selected Stories (1972) — Editor — 13 exemplares
Rejser i tid og rum : en bog om science fiction (1973) — Autor, algumas edições12 exemplares
Armchair Horror Collection (1994) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
Ghostly, grim and gruesome: An anthology (1976) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
The Fireside Treasury of Modern Humor (1963) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Lucky Jim [1957 film] — Original book — 3 exemplares
The Green Man [1990 TV series] — Original book — 2 exemplares
Haunted: The Ferryman [1974 TV movie] (2012) — Original Story — 2 exemplares

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It's hard not to admire a novel that fails to prove this particular thesis:

Dixon looked out of the side window, and his spirits rose at once at the sight of the darkened countryside moving past him. This ride, unlike most of the things that happened to him, was something he’d rather have than not have. He’d got something he wanted, and whatever the cost in future embarrassment he was ready to meet it. He reflected that the Arab proverb urging this kind of policy was incomplete: to "take what you want and pay for it" it should add "which is better than being forced to take what you don’t want and paying for that." It was one more argument to support his theory that nice things are nicer than nasty ones.… (mais)
 
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sircalidore | 153 outras críticas | Mar 10, 2024 |
Fun, sort of a Jeeves and Wooster if Wooster we’re smarter and a bit less sweet
 
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cspiwak | 153 outras críticas | Mar 6, 2024 |
 
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BooksInMirror | 9 outras críticas | Feb 19, 2024 |
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 | 153 outras críticas | Nov 25, 2023 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
96
Also by
45
Membros
17,645
Popularidade
#1,251
Avaliação
3.9
Críticas
360
ISBN
506
Línguas
15
Marcado como favorito
35

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