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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Page 215
... John Wain , James Michie and Kenneth Tynan . Wain , the son of a prosperous dentist from Stoke- on - Trent , was educated at Newcastle - under - Lyme High School . Like Larkin , he was a fee - paying pupil both at school and at ...
... John Wain , James Michie and Kenneth Tynan . Wain , the son of a prosperous dentist from Stoke- on - Trent , was educated at Newcastle - under - Lyme High School . Like Larkin , he was a fee - paying pupil both at school and at ...
Page 270
... John Wain had recently been appointed producer of a BBC Third Programme series entitled First Reading , which was meant to replace John Lehmann's book series New Soundings . Lehmann's series had run from 9 January 1952 until II March ...
... John Wain had recently been appointed producer of a BBC Third Programme series entitled First Reading , which was meant to replace John Lehmann's book series New Soundings . Lehmann's series had run from 9 January 1952 until II March ...
Page 361
... John Wain and Doris Lessing , a lone female Angry ) to explain their views in a book entitled Declaration . Amis ... Wain's contribution to the book : ' Christ , what about this Declaration thing , ' he complained to Larkin , in a letter ...
... John Wain and Doris Lessing , a lone female Angry ) to explain their views in a book entitled Declaration . Amis ... Wain's contribution to the book : ' Christ , what about this Declaration thing , ' he complained to Larkin , in a letter ...
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