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Amis ä´mis , Kingsley. - Scrittore inglese (Londra 1922 - ivi 1995). Dopo il suo esordio come poeta si è affermato come romanziere, e nella sua produzione, costantemente caratterizzata da un'efficace vena comica e dall'amore per il paradosso, ha affiancato alla predilezione per la suspense e per la fantascienza l'attenzione ai problemi sociali e psicologici.
22 ott 1995 · Kingsley Amis. Best known novels of British writer Sir Kingsley William Amis include Lucky Jim (1954) and The Old Devils (1986). This English poet, critic, and teacher composed more than twenty-three collections, short stories, radio and television scripts, and books of social and literary criticism. He fathered Martin Amis.
2 giu 2019 · Kingsley Amis’s fiction is characterized by a recurring preoccupation with certain themes and concepts, with certain basic human experiences, attitudes, and perceptions. These persistent themes are treated with enormous variety, however, particularly in Amis’s novels which draw on the conventions of genre fiction—the mystery, the spy thriller, the ghost story, and so on.
Kingsley Amis. Poet, novelist, and critic Kingsley Amis was born in London, England in 1922. Amis’s father William was a clerk at Colman’s Mustard, earning the family a position among the lower middle class. Amis, an only child, characterized his childhood as bland and insular. At the age of 11, he had his first story published in the ...
Kingsley Amis. Sir Kingsley William Amis (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. He wrote more than twenty novels, three collections of poetry, short stories, radio and television scripts, and books of social and literary criticism. He was the father of the British novelist Martin Amis .
Interviewed by Michael Barber. Issue 64, Winter 1975. Kingsley Amis, the former Angry Young Man, lives in a large, early-nineteenth-century house beside a wooded common. To reach it, one makes a journey similar to that described by the narrator of Girl, 20 when he visits Sir Roy Vandervane: first by tube to the end of the Northern Line at ...
Kingsley Amis has 151 books on Goodreads with 135525 ratings. Kingsley Amis’s most popular book is Lucky Jim.
