Kingsley Amis, Christopher Cazenove, Gayle Hunnicutt, Iain Cuthbertson, Tom Watson, Freddie Jones, Peter Jeffrey, Ken Stott, Nigel Anthony, Anna Calder-Marshall...
(Išleidimo metai: 08-Aug-2024, MP3, Leidėjas: BBC Audio, ISBN-13: 9781529909241)
Adaptations of Kingley Amiss great novels and acclaimed short storiesNovelist, poet and critic Kingsley Amis was one of Britains greatest post-war writers. A master of comic fiction, he came to fame in 1954, and won the 1986 Booker Prize for The Ol...Daugiau...
Colonel Sun was the first James Bond novel published after the death of Ian Fleming. Penned by one of Britain's finest writers, Kingsley Amis, this new edition celebrates the novel's 55th anniversary. Released on October 5th, James Bond Day...Daugiau...
One of the very best of our poets Anthony PowellKingsley Amis wrote poems throughout his life, turning his acerbic, bracing perceptiveness on the same subjects that fill his novels: lust, lost love, drink, money, God (seen as indifferent or malign)...Daugiau...
Amis has no faults. He is clever, witty, ironical GuardianWhat advice can one give a green young author? What purpose do literary prizes serve? Where on earth can a man get a decent bite to eat? This entertaining collection is vintage Kingsley Amis...Daugiau...
Kingsley Amis was one of the great masters of comic prose, and no subject was dearer to him than the art and practice of imbibing.This new volume brings together the best of his three out-of-print works on the subject: Kingsley Amis in Drink, Everyda...Daugiau...
Kingsley Amis was one of the great masters of comic prose, and no subject was dearer to him than the art and practice of imbibing.This new volume brings together the best of his three out-of-print works on the subject: Kingsley Amis in Drink, Everyda...Daugiau...
Brought to you by Penguin.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 girl who moves south,...Daugiau...
Brought to you by Penguin.For the first time in audio, savour this volume bringing together the best of his three out-of-print works on the art of and, most importantly, practice of drinking. Including Kingsley Amis in Drink, Everyday Drinking and Ho...Daugiau...
Brought to you by Penguin. 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,...Daugiau...
Brought to you by Penguin.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 Amiss short fiction in a single volume for th...Daugiau...
Brought to you by Penguin.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, want...Daugiau...
Brought to you by Penguin. The quickest way to get rich is to marry someone rich, but how do you do this if you arent yet rich? TV chat-show host Ronnie Appleyard is preoccupied with this question as he pursues wealthy heiress Simona Quick over two...Daugiau...
Brought to you by Penguin.The Kings English is Kingsley Amiss 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 li...Daugiau...
Brought to you by Penguin.In Kingsley Amiss Difficulties With Girls, Jenny Bunn and Patrick Standish have settled into London life with their troubled courtship long behind them. Patrick works in publishing and Jenny teaches sick children in a hospi...Daugiau...
Brought to you by Penguin.Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britains new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons. As long as Jim can survive a madrigal-singing weekend at Professo...Daugiau...
Brought to you by Penguin.Brimming with gluttony, booze and lust, Roger Micheldene is loose in America. Supposedly visiting Budweiser University to make deals for his publishing firm in England, Roger instead sets out to offend all he meets and to se...Daugiau...
Brought to you by Penguin. A mummy is stolen from a small town museum along with some Roman coins and a soaking wet man collapses in fourteen year old Peter Furneauxs living room bleeding from the head. What was a suspected student prank is followed...Daugiau...
Brought to you by Penguin.In this hilarious, inspiring and provocative series of essays, Kingsley Amis introduces every reader to the wonders and value of science fiction writing. From the extraordinary ideas but sexless science of Jules Verne to the...Daugiau...
Brought to you by Penguin.At Tuppenny-hapenny Cottage in the English countryside, five elderly people live together in rancorous disharmony. Adela Bastable bosses the house, as her brother Bernard passes his days thinking up malicious schemes against...Daugiau...
Brought to you by Penguin.Harry Caldecote is the most charming man youll ever meet, a convivial academic who devotes his life to others. He is on call when his alcoholic niece falls into strange hands, when his brother threatens to emulate Wordswort...Daugiau...
