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Amis, Kingsley

Overview
Works: 565 works in 2,298 publications in 28 languages and 67,956 library holdings
Genres: Love stories  Humorous fiction  Humorous stories  Satire  Mystery fiction  Science fiction  Ghost stories  Suspense fiction  Spy stories  Musical fiction 
Roles: Editor, Author of introduction, Compiler, Performer, Dedicatee, Other, Bibliographic antecedent, Writer of accompanying material, Commentator
Classifications: pr6001.m6, 823.914
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229 editions published between and 2010 in 16 languages and held by 3,057 libraries worldwide
A humorous novel about an amiable opportunist who finds himself, after the war, in the improbable role of an instructor in medieval history at one of Britain's new redbrick universities in a small British village.
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48 editions published between and 2011 in 8 languages and held by 1,880 libraries worldwide
"When Alun Weaver and his wife, Rhiannon, a famous beauty in her day, move into a quiet retirement community, they find it peopled by friends from former days."--Audio cassette container.
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62 editions published between and 2009 in 9 languages and held by 1,769 libraries worldwide
The alcoholic owner of an English countryside inn divides his time between trying to seduce the female guests and telling tales of ghosts rumored to haunt the inn. After an encounter with a spirit, the man and his cohorts realize that the ghosts are not only real, but after them as well.
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62 editions published between and 2011 in 7 languages and held by 1,479 libraries worldwide
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20 editions published between and 1997 in English and held by 1,450 libraries worldwide
Mild-mannered Harry Caldecote, a retired librarian, is determined to protect his time and privacy, but his sense of responsibility for an assortment of extended family members and friends leads to a life of adventure.
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26 editions published between and 2001 in 4 languages and held by 1,418 libraries worldwide
A drawing room comedy featuring Richard Vaisey, an English expert on Russian literature, who falls for a Russian poetess. He is reluctant to leave his wife because she has lots of money and when he finally takes the plunge he discovers, to his regret, she also has lots of imagination--for revenge.
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20 editions published between and 1981 in English and held by 1,387 libraries worldwide
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40 editions published between and 2007 in 3 languages and held by 1,369 libraries worldwide
In this fairly outrageous and definitely funny story of Jake and his lost libido, Kingsley Amis takes some well-aimed swipes at the crankier fringes of psychotherapy and at sex--1970s style.
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29 editions published between and 2008 in 5 languages and held by 1,336 libraries worldwide
Analyse : Roman d'humour. Roman de société.
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47 editions published between and 2002 in 3 languages and held by 1,295 libraries worldwide
Amid preparations for Operation Apollo, secret agent Brian Leonard meet James Churchill who has "gone round-the-bend for a parole from the mental ward," "a widowed beauty..., an unfocused psychiatrist, an unbelieving chaplain, and a charming alcoholic."--Container.
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32 editions published between and 2004 in 7 languages and held by 1,246 libraries worldwide
An alternative history novel set in a world in which the Protestant Reformation never took place. Hubert Anvil is a singer in the choir of St. George's Basilica whose life is thrown into chaos when his teachers and the Church hierarchy decree that the boy's voice is too precious to sacrifice to puberty. Despite his own misgivings, he must undergo castration, the alteration of the title, in order to preserve it. Will he escape this turn of fate?
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29 editions published between and 2004 in 4 languages and held by 1,245 libraries worldwide
Reading of Kingsley Amis' novel Stanley and the women.
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100 editions published between and 9999 in 6 languages and held by 1,212 libraries worldwide
It's the summer of 1959, the dawn of an era of unprecedented freedom for women. Jenny Bunn is taking a new job as a primary school teacher. She's new to town and it's not long before she's spotted by local wolf Patrick Standish. Although flirty and mischievous, Jenny is a 'nice' girl. When Patrick pounces on her, she firmly tells him no. But Patrick has never wanted a girl as much as he does Jenny. Their tangled affair plays out against a backdrop of the boarding schools, cricket pitches and country houses of provincial England and the sleazy jazz and strip clubs of London's Soho.
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20 editions published between and 1999 in English and held by 1,164 libraries worldwide
Set in London during the mid-1960s. Tim is unsure whether he likes girls at all, Eric and Stevie have more difficulties with one another than they do with girls and Patrick succumbs all too easily to temptation.
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58 editions published between and 1994 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,078 libraries worldwide
Comic novel about a family transported from London to Portugal where their worst dreams are realized.
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26 editions published between and 1975 in English and held by 1,069 libraries worldwide
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42 editions published between and 2011 in 8 languages and held by 1,062 libraries worldwide
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39 editions published between and 1993 in 7 languages and held by 1,040 libraries worldwide
Fame, money and repeated of sex are the three ambitions of Ronnie Appleyard, a successful T.V. interviewer.
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20 editions published between and 1993 in English and Finnish and held by 1,039 libraries worldwide
Serialized in a British newspaper in 1975, this edition of Amis's whodunit benefits from an introduction by the master satirist himself. The plot involves the murders of young women in London and the special committee set up to coordinate investigations with the police, when even Scotland Yard's most famous detectives fail to catch the killer. The professional sleuths, therefore, consult with an odd assortment of amateurs: Chris Dane, crime novelist; Benedict Royal, an intellectual rock star; Sir Neil Costello, QC; members of Parliament; and psychiatrists, including Marcus Varga, who's flakier than his patients. As the murders continue, so does Amis keep adding ingenious red herrings while playing fair by planting clues for readers sharp enough to spot them. The solution, however, will strike most mystery buffs as tops in the art of literary legerdemain. An alternate denouement, submitted by one of the newspaper's subscribers, closes the book and emphasizes just how foxy the author is.
 
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Audience level: 0.55 (from 0.43 for The crime ... to 0.63 for New maps o ...)
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Alternative Names

controlled identity Tanner, William,1922-1995

controlled identity Markham, Robert,1922-1995

Amis, Kingsley
Amis, Kingsley, 1922-1995
Amis, Kingsley William.
Amis, Kingsley William 1922-1995
Amis, William Kingsley 1992-1995
Ėmis, Kingsli
Ėmis, Kingsli, 1922-1995
Kingsley, Amis 1922-1995
Markham, Robert.
Markham, Robert, 1922-1995
Pseud. Markham, Robert 1922-1995 LoC-NA
Эмис, Кингсли
Амис, Кингслеы
艾米斯
Languages
English (1,921)
Undetermined (113)
French (43)
German (42)
Spanish (26)
Czech (25)
Polish (24)
Japanese (22)
Danish (21)
Dutch (17)
Swedish (14)
Italian (10)
Russian (10)
Finnish (9)
Chinese (7)
No Linguistic content (7)
Hebrew (6)
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Greek, Modern (2)
Multiple languages (2)
Slovenian (2)
Portuguese (1)
Estonian (1)
Persian (1)
Romanian (1)
Bulgarian (1)
Catalan (1)
Serbian (1)
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