Kingsley Amis (1922–1995)
Autore di Lucky Jim
Sull'Autore
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 mostra altro 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) mostra meno
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Serie
Opere di Kingsley Amis
Dear Philip, Dear Kingsley: Starring Alan Bennett & Robert Hardy (BBC Radio Collection) (2002) 6 copie
Take A Girl Like You [1970 film] — Screenwriter — 4 copie
Harold's Years: Impressions from the "New Statesman" and "The Spectator" (1977) — A cura di — 4 copie
Colllected letters 2 copie
Mason's Life [short fiction] 2 copie
Journey Into the Past 2 copie
Who Or What Was It? 1 copia
Conversations 1 copia
Something Strange 1 copia
Amis Kingsley 1 copia
Opere correlate
L'uomo che fu Giovedì: storia di un incubo (1908) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 7,133 copie, 169 recensioni
A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen (2009) — Collaboratore — 366 copie, 18 recensioni
The Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse (1950) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 268 copie, 3 recensioni
The war of the worlds, The time machine, and selected short stories (1978) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni — 158 copie
Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and "Inventor of Jazz" (1973) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni — 154 copie, 3 recensioni
The Second Penguin Book of English Short Stories (1972) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 119 copie
Rejser i tid og rum : en bog om science fiction (1973) — Autore, alcune edizioni — 12 copie, 1 recensione
Lucky Jim [1957 film] — Original book — 3 copie
The Green Man [1990 TV series] — Original book — 2 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Amis, Kingsley William
- Altri nomi
- Markham, Robert (pseudonym)
- Data di nascita
- 1922-04-16
- Data di morte
- 1995-10-22
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Golders Green Crematorium, London, England
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Clapham, Wandsworth, London, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- St Pancras Hospital, London, England, UK
- Causa della morte
- stroke
- Luogo di residenza
- London, England, UK
Wales, UK - Istruzione
- Oxford University (BA|1949| St John's College)
City of London School - Attività lavorative
- Writer
- Relazioni
- Amis, Martin (son)
- Organizzazioni
- Angry Young Men
Communist Party of Great Britain
Royal Corps of Signals - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Guest of Honour, Eastercon, UK (1961)
Order of the British Empire (Commander) (1981)
Knight Bachelor (1990)
Utenti
Recensioni
Spectrum: A Science Fiction Anthology di Kingsley Amis
This anthology first appeared in 1962 and has a good choice of Authors. William Tenn, Algis budrys, Robert Heinlein, Frederick Pohl, Robert Schekley and Clifford Simak. There are three other authors as well. A very worthwhile collection.
This has been my third attempt at 'Lucky Jim'. And this time I did manage to finish it, in the manner of someone who is obliged to finish a particularly irksome piece of homework: without enthusiasm or enjoyment.
My own university years came at the tail end of the period Amis depicts, so I do recognise some of the types described. Socially inept Dixon himself, the hapless Professor Welch, highly-strung Margaret - I've met them all. However, in this case, I didn't really believe in them. And I liked none of them, particularly the irritating and lazy Dixon. Unable to involve myself in his quest for yet another cigarette or pint, or identify with his terminal lazinesss, I just wanted him to get on with it and get us both to the end of the book.
There are wonderful images, such as the justly famous description of a hangover: '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 a secret police. He felt bad.' But it was a high price to pay, ploughing through the book on the off-chance of meeting gems such as this. Not on my 'to-read-again' shelf.… (altro)
My own university years came at the tail end of the period Amis depicts, so I do recognise some of the types described. Socially inept Dixon himself, the hapless Professor Welch, highly-strung Margaret - I've met them all. However, in this case, I didn't really believe in them. And I liked none of them, particularly the irritating and lazy Dixon. Unable to involve myself in his quest for yet another cigarette or pint, or identify with his terminal lazinesss, I just wanted him to get on with it and get us both to the end of the book.
There are wonderful images, such as the justly famous description of a hangover: '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 a secret police. He felt bad.' But it was a high price to pay, ploughing through the book on the off-chance of meeting gems such as this. Not on my 'to-read-again' shelf.… (altro)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 99
- Opere correlate
- 45
- Utenti
- 17,908
- Popolarità
- #1,228
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 361
- ISBN
- 508
- Lingue
- 15
- Preferito da
- 35