The Life of Kingsley AmisIn this authorised biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but a dominant figure in post-war British writing, as novelist, poet, critic and polemicist. |
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... College Natural History Society Report , by kind permission of the Master , Marlborough College ) ; 9 KA , c . twelve years old ( British Library Reproductions The British Library Board ) ; 10 Philip Larkin and fellow undergraduates ...
... College Natural History Society Report , by kind permission of the Master , Marlborough College ) ; 9 KA , c . twelve years old ( British Library Reproductions The British Library Board ) ; 10 Philip Larkin and fellow undergraduates ...
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... College , his first English teacher , Mr Waller , was less alluring , though most boys approved his preference for reading stories rather than parsing or sentence analysis . The sorts of stories Mr Waller liked ' were about the Great ...
... College , his first English teacher , Mr Waller , was less alluring , though most boys approved his preference for reading stories rather than parsing or sentence analysis . The sorts of stories Mr Waller liked ' were about the Great ...
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... college , together with so much money that its holdings were increased by some 160 per cent . Peterhouse is both the oldest and smallest college in Cambridge . Small colleges , it was thought , could not be expected to cover all ...
... college , together with so much money that its holdings were increased by some 160 per cent . Peterhouse is both the oldest and smallest college in Cambridge . Small colleges , it was thought , could not be expected to cover all ...
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