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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... week's unseen is ' beta - alpha , ' not bad for ' a rather tough week ' . The present assignment , ' an almost insultingly easy couple of paragraphs of Caesar ' , 27 he finishes ten minutes early . For home- work that night Robin has a ...
... week's unseen is ' beta - alpha , ' not bad for ' a rather tough week ' . The present assignment , ' an almost insultingly easy couple of paragraphs of Caesar ' , 27 he finishes ten minutes early . For home- work that night Robin has a ...
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... week Lucky Jim was published . It began : ' As last week's great new poet , I was very glad to see that letter from Doctor Sitwell telling Mr. Anthony Hartley that it's okay for great poets to copy bits out of dead writers . ' It ended ...
... week Lucky Jim was published . It began : ' As last week's great new poet , I was very glad to see that letter from Doctor Sitwell telling Mr. Anthony Hartley that it's okay for great poets to copy bits out of dead writers . ' It ended ...
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... week in Huntingdon , Cambridgeshire , where he had a job with an electronics firm , returning to Gardnor House on weekends only . Colin had previously been self - employed ; when he joined the Huntingdon firm he was at last eligible for ...
... week in Huntingdon , Cambridgeshire , where he had a job with an electronics firm , returning to Gardnor House on weekends only . Colin had previously been self - employed ; when he joined the Huntingdon firm he was at last eligible for ...
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