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The Anti-Death League is a 1966 novel by English author Kingsley Amis (1922–1995). 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.
- Kingsley Amis
- 1966
3.37. 380 ratings45 reviews. Brian Leonard, a Monty Python of secret agents, meets James Churchill, a young officer at an English army base where preparations are under way for Operation Apollo. To complicate matters, Churchill has gone round-the-bend for a parole from the mental ward.
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2 feb 2022 · The Anti-Death League : Amis, Kingsley : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. by. Amis, Kingsley. Publication date. 1968. Topics. Great Britain. Army -- Fiction, Great Britain. Army, Spy stories, Brothels -- Fiction, Brothels, Spies -- Great Britain -- Fiction, Fiction in English, 1900- Texts. Publisher. Harmondsworth : Penguin.
Summary. In this surreal comedy of soldiers and spies, Lieutenant James Churchill and his colleagues find themselves questioning their purpose. Are they for death or against it? These men of action will travel between the barracks, the lunatic asylum and the house of an aristocratic nymphomaniac in search of answers.
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30 nov 1975 · The Anti-Death League of the title primarily reflects the rebellion of several of the characters against life’s tragedies, a kind of quixotic raging against the dying of the light.
- Kingsley Amis
When the Anti-Death League is founded they are at last offered the chance to rebel and perhaps escape ...
