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Books by Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis (1922-1995) was a popular and prolific British novelist, poet, and critic, widely regarded as one of the greatest satirical writers of the twentieth century. Born in suburban South London, the only child of a clerk in the office of the mustard-maker Colman's, he went to the City of London School on the Thames before winning an English scholarship to St. John's College, Oxford, where he began a lifelong friendship with fellow student Philip Larkin. Following service in the British Army's Royal Corps of Signals during World War II, he completed his degree and joined the faculty at the University College of Swansea in Wales. "Lucky Jim," his first novel, appeared in 1954 to great acclaim and won a Somerset Maugham Award. Amis spent a year as a visiting fellow in the creative writing department of Princeton University and in 1961 became a fellow at Peterhouse College, Cambridge, but resigned the position two years later, lamenting the incompatibility of writing and teaching ("I found myself fit for nothing much more exacting than playing the gramophone after three supervisions a day"). Ultimately he published twenty-four novels, including science fiction and a James Bond sequel; more than a dozen collections of poetry, short stories, and literary criticism; restaurant reviews and three books about drinking; political pamphlets and a memoir; and more. Amis received the Booker Prize for his novel "The Old Devils" in 1986 and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1990. He had three children, among them the novelist Martin Amis, with his first wife, Hilary Anne Bardwell, from whom he was divorced in 1965. After his second, eighteen-year marriage to the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard ended in 1983, he lived in a London house with his first wife and her third husband. Michael Dirda is a longtime book columnist for "The Washington Post" and the author, most recently, of "Classics for Pleasure" and the 2012 Edgar Award-winning "On Conan Doyle."
Rudyard Kipling By Kingsley Amis
Rudyard Kiplingby Kingsley Amis
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$13.69
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The Egyptologists By Kingsley Amis
The Egyptologistsby Kingsley Amis
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$18.49
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Russian Hide and Seek By Kingsley Amis
Russian Hide and Seekby Kingsley Amis
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$17.19
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The Russian Girl By Kingsley Amis
The Russian Girlby Kingsley Amis
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$13.69
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James Bond - Colonel Sun By Kingsley Amis
James Bond - Colonel Sunby Kingsley Amis
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$38.99
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Complete Stories By Kingsley Amis
Complete Storiesby Kingsley Amis
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$39.99
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The Golden Age of Science Fiction By Kingsley Amis
The Golden Age of Science Fictionby Kingsley Amis
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$31.99
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The Faber Popular Reciter By Kingsley Amis
The Faber Popular Reciterby Kingsley Amis
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$13.69
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The Egyptologists By Kingsley Amis
The Egyptologistsby Kingsley Amis
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$18.99
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Collected Short Stories By Kingsley Amis
Collected Short Storiesby Kingsley Amis
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$11.99
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On Drink By Kingsley Amis
On Drinkby Kingsley Amis
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$45.99
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The Letters of Kingsley Amis By Kingsley Amis
The Letters of Kingsley Amisby Kingsley Amis
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Girl, 20 By Kingsley Amis
Girl, 20by Kingsley Amis
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Take a Girl Like You By Kingsley Amis
Take a Girl Like Youby Kingsley Amis
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$11.99
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The Amis Collection By Kingsley Amis
The Amis Collectionby Kingsley Amis
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Lucky Jim By Kingsley Amis
Lucky Jimby Kingsley Amis
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Take a Girl Like You By Kingsley Amis
Take a Girl Like Youby Kingsley Amis
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Lucky Jim By Kingsley Amis
Lucky Jimby Kingsley Amis
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That Uncertain Feeling By Kingsley Amis
That Uncertain Feelingby Kingsley Amis
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$11.99
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The Golden Age of Science Fiction By Kingsley Amis
The Golden Age of Science Fictionby Kingsley Amis
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The King's English By Kingsley Amis
The King's Englishby Kingsley Amis
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Lucky Jim By Kingsley Amis
Lucky Jimby Kingsley Amis
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$40.99
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You Can't Do Both By Kingsley Amis
You Can't Do Bothby Kingsley Amis
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Spectrum By Kingsley Amis
Spectrumby Kingsley Amis
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The Biographer's Moustache By Kingsley Amis
The Biographer's Moustacheby Kingsley Amis
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Spectrum By Kingsley Amis
Spectrumby Kingsley Amis
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Difficulties with Girls By Kingsley Amis
Difficulties with Girlsby Kingsley Amis
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Amis Anthology By Kingsley Amis
Amis Anthologyby Kingsley Amis
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The Green Man By Kingsley Amis
The Green Manby Kingsley Amis
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The Russian Girl By Kingsley Amis
The Russian Girlby Kingsley Amis
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Difficulties with Girls By Kingsley Amis
Difficulties with Girlsby Kingsley Amis
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The Great British Song Book By Kingsley Amis
The Great British Song Bookby Kingsley Amis
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The Old Devils By Kingsley Amis
The Old Devilsby Kingsley Amis
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The Green Man By Kingsley Amis
The Green Manby Kingsley Amis
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That Uncertain Feeling By Kingsley Amis
That Uncertain Feelingby Kingsley Amis
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Girl, 20 By Kingsley Amis
Girl, 20by Kingsley Amis
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Memoirs By Kingsley Amis
Memoirsby Kingsley Amis
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The Biographer's Moustache By Kingsley Amis
The Biographer's Moustacheby Kingsley Amis
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Ending up By Kingsley Amis
Ending upby Kingsley Amis
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The Old Devils By Kingsley Amis
The Old Devilsby Kingsley Amis
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Lucky Jim By Kingsley Amis
Lucky Jimby Kingsley Amis
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Collected Poems, 1944-79 By Kingsley Amis
Collected Poems, 1944-79by Kingsley Amis
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Collected Short Stories By Kingsley Amis
Collected Short Storiesby Kingsley Amis
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The Riverside Villas Murder By Kingsley Amis
The Riverside Villas Murderby Kingsley Amis
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The Alteration By Kingsley Amis
The Alterationby Kingsley Amis
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Jake's Thing By Kingsley Amis
Jake's Thingby Kingsley Amis
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Spectrum By Kingsley Amis
Spectrumby Kingsley Amis
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Take a Girl Like You By Kingsley Amis
Take a Girl Like Youby Kingsley Amis
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