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The King's English is Kingsley Amis's authoritative and witty guide to the use and abuse of the English language. A scourge of illiteracy and a thorn in the side of pretension, Amis provides indispensable advice about the linguistic blunders and barbarities that lie in...
The short stories of Kingsley Amis - the great master of post-war comic prose - are dark, playful, moving, surprising and extremely funny. This definitive collection gathers all Amis's short fiction in a single volume for the first time and encompasses five decades of...
Douglas Yandell, a young-ish music critic, is enlisted by Kitty Vandervane to keep an eye on her roving husband - the eminent conductor and would-be radical Sir Roy - as he embarks on yet another affair. Roy, meanwhile, wantsDouglas as an alibi for his growing...
'I suppose it was conceited of me. But it was fun. And I felt like getting a bit of my own back on some of the people who'd conned and flattered me into wasting all those years.' In this wry, piercing short story from one of the greatest of all British postwar writers,...
Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each...
'A brilliantly and preposterously funny book' Guardian'A flawless comic novel ... I loved it then, as I do now. It has always made me laugh out loud' Helen Dunmore, The TimesJim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities. A...
La réédition du James Bond le plus culte et le plus confidentiel de la série. Un petit bijou du " monde d'avant ", signé Kingsley Amis." James Bond doit être mis dans l'état d'esprit nécessaire pour accueillir la mort que j'ai prévue pour lui. – Qu'est-ce que je dois...
Vous vous intéressez à l’œnologie mais détestez? les "snobinards du vin" ? Vous ne savez pas comment survivre à votre gueule de bois ?Vous désirez perdre du poids sans diminuer votre consommation d’alcool ? Vous voulez briller en société et rabaisser vos amis un peu...
Chargé de cours dans une petite université anglaise, Jim Dixon accumule les déboires professionnels et sentimentaux. Lucky Jim (1954) est un roman plein d'humour et d'ironie, un modèle de drôlerie pour les lecteurs anglo-saxons, un trésor...
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