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 107
... Party ( CP ) , and the party- dominated Labour Club ' rump ' , rationalised the Nazi - Soviet pact and the attack on Finland as , in Healey's words , ' a reaction to the failure of Britain and France to build a common front against ...
... Party ( CP ) , and the party- dominated Labour Club ' rump ' , rationalised the Nazi - Soviet pact and the attack on Finland as , in Healey's words , ' a reaction to the failure of Britain and France to build a common front against ...
Page 108
... Party like that . Tut , tut , John . I am seri- ously displeased with you ... So rejoin the Party right away . Not the YCL [ Young Communist League ] - that is only a bleeding kinder- garten , or , an excuse for getting to know ...
... Party like that . Tut , tut , John . I am seri- ously displeased with you ... So rejoin the Party right away . Not the YCL [ Young Communist League ] - that is only a bleeding kinder- garten , or , an excuse for getting to know ...
Page 110
... Party : ' When I went along to be inducted , ' he told the jour- nalist Graham Turner , ' it was rather like being taken to the priest and asked if you'd got a vocation , and the person who signed me up was Iris Murdoch . She's a great ...
... Party : ' When I went along to be inducted , ' he told the jour- nalist Graham Turner , ' it was rather like being taken to the priest and asked if you'd got a vocation , and the person who signed me up was Iris Murdoch . She's a great ...
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