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Sir Kingsley William Amis CBE (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, short stories, radio and television scripts, and works of social and literary criticism .
Kingsley was influenced by Frederick Denison Maurice, and was close to many Victorian thinkers and writers, including the Scottish writer George MacDonald. Kingsley was highly critical of Roman Catholicism and his argument in print with John Henry Newman, accusing him of untruthfulness and deceit, prompted the latter to write his Apologia Pro ...
Lucky Jim is a novel by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1954 by Victor Gollancz.It was Amis's first novel and won the 1955 Somerset Maugham Award for fiction. The novel follows the academic and romantic tribulations of the eponymous James (Jim) Dixon, a reluctant history lecturer at an unnamed provincial English university.
The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby is a children's novel by Charles Kingsley. [1] Written in 1862–1863 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine, it was first published in its entirety in 1863.
In September 1980, the legendary author Kingsley Amis wrote an essay for Food & Wine called "Scotch: The Water of Life." Obviously, some information about the availability and popularity of Scotch ...
The Anti-Death League is a 1966 novel by English author Kingsley Amis (1922–1995). [2] Set in England, it follows the lives of characters working in and around a fictional British Army camp where a secret weapon is being tested.
British novelist Martin Amis, who brought a rock ‘n’ roll sensibility to his stories and lifestyle, has died. Amis was the son of another British writer, Kingsley Amis. Martin Amis was a ...
Elizabeth Taylor (née Coles; 3 July 1912 – 19 November 1975) was an English novelist and short-story writer.Kingsley Amis described her as "one of the best English novelists born in this century".