Libros de Kingsley Amis

Estaré Sola Y Sin Fiesta

• 304 páginas
• ¿Quién es Yna? ¿Por qué su diario íntimo, crónica de su enamoramiento de Alejandro en 1990, ha aparecido en un contenedor de Zaragoza? La protagonista de Estaré sola y sin fiesta no puede evitar hacerse...

Lucky Jim

• 384 páginas
• Jim Dixon se encuentra en una situación delicada. No sabe si va a poder conservar su puesto de profesor de Historia Medieval en la universidad, ya que para ello tendría que publicar un artículo que le granjeara la admiración...

Stanley Y Las Mujeres

• 352 páginas
• Stanley Duke se adentra plácidamente en la edad madura. Nada parece importunar su vida acomodada hasta que, de repente, su hijo Steve se vuelve loco. A partir de ese momento, Stanley se ve acosado por las mujeres que le rodean: Nowell, su primera...

Cuentos Completos

• 576 páginas
• Esta recopilación reúne por primera vez y en un solo volumen la totalidad de la prosa breve de Kingsley Amis, uno de los más reconocidos maestros de la edad de oro de la narrativa inglesa. Un agente literario es víctima de un...

Cuentos Completos

• 576 páginas
• Esta recopilación reúne por primera vez y en un solo volumen la totalidad de su prosa breve, de uno de los más reconocidos maestros de la edad de oro de la narrativa inglesa. Un agente literario es víctima de un misterioso secu...

That Uncertain Feeling

• 256 páginas
• In That Uncertain Feeling by Kingsley Amis, competition is stiff for the position of sub-librarian in Aberdarcy Library. For John Lewis, the situation is complicated by the attentions of daunting and desirable village socialite, Elizabeth Gruffyd-Williams...

Take A Girl Like You

• 288 páginas
• In Kingsley Amis' "Take A Girl Like You", twenty year old Jenny Bunn is supernally beautiful and stubbornly chaste, which is why Patrick Standish, an arrogant schoolmaster, wants her so much. This perceptive coming of age novel about a northern...

King's English: A Guide To Modern Usage

• 272 páginas
• An indispensable companion for readers, writers, and even casual users of the language, the Penguin Modern Classics edition of Kingsley Amis's The King's English features a new introduction by Martin Amis.

Lucky Jim

• 264 páginas
• 'His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as a mausoleum. During the night, too, he'd somehow been on a cross-country run and then been expertly beaten up by secret police. He felt bad.'

Lucky Jim

• 296 páginas
• Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jim remains as trenchant, withering, and eloquently misanthropic as when it first scandalized readers in 1954. This is the story of Jim Dixon, a hapless lecturer...

One Fat Englishman

Girl, 20

Complete Stories

• 528 páginas
• Kingsley Amis wrote short stories throughout his five decades as a published novelist, some of them character or situation sketches which stand next to the novels, others daring experimentations with genre. For the first time these stories are collected...

Conversations With Kingsley Amis

• 212 páginas
• Soon after Kingsley Amis (1922-1995) published his first novel, Lucky Jim, in 1954, he became an object of literary and journalistic scrutiny. This attention would continue until his last days, four decades and forty books later. This book of interviews...

Lucky Jim

• 250 páginas
• First published in 1954, this book is a hilarious satire of British university life. It is a young man's book, in fact a book of two young men. They are not exactly angry young men, but they are extremely irritable. College friends with similar background...

You Cant Do Both

• Robin Davies knows how to look after number one. Raised in a bland suburb of South London in the 1930s Robin longs for the freedom to do what he wants. When he escapes to study in Oxford he meets Nancy Bennett a young woman even less worldly than himself....