Pitchforks & Pina Coladas, Kingsley Gk

Автор: Kingsley Amis
Название: The King`s English
ISBN: 0141194316 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141194318
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: A scourge of illiteracy and a thorn in the side of pretension, the author provides advice about the linguistic blunders that lie in wait for us, from danglers and four-letter words to jargon and even Welsh rarebit.

Автор: Kingsley Amis
Название: Complete Stories HB
ISBN: 0141194197 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141194196
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: The short stories of Kingsley Amis - the great master of post-war comic prose - are dark, playful, moving, surprising and extremely funny. This definitive collection gathers all Amis's short fiction in a single volume for the first time and encompasses five decades of storytelling. In 'The 2003 Claret', written in 1958, a time machine is invented for the weighty task of sending a man to 2010 to discover what the booze will taste like.

In 'Boris and the Colonel' a Cambridge spy is unearthed in the sleepy English countryside with the help of a plucky horse, while In 'Mason's Life' two men meet inside their respective dreams. The collection spans many genres, offering ingenious alternative histories, mystery and horror, satirical reflections and a devilishly funny attacks. Amis's stories reveal the scope of his imagination and the warmth beneath his acerbic humour, and they all share the unmistakable style and wit of one of Britain's best loved writers.

With a new foreword by Rachel Cusk.

Автор: Kingsley, Peter
Название: In the dark places of wisdom
ISBN: 189035001X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781890350017
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Описание: This book provides a concise and up-to-date account of crime prevention theory, practice and research in a form designed to be accessible and interesting to both students and practitioners. It will equip readers with the ability to think in an informed and critical way about what has been and might be done in practice to prevent crime at local and national levels.

Автор: Kingsley Charles
Название: The Water-Babies - A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby - Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson
ISBN: 1473334713 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781473334717
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Цена: 55170.00 T
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Описание: Charles Kingsley's classic, The Water Babies, was extremely popular in England, and was a mainstay of British children's literature for many decades. This classic fairy tale, originally published in 1915, contains eight incredible colour illustrations and many beautiful and intricate black and white drawings by W. Heath Robinson.

Автор: Amis Kingsley
Название: Lucky Jim
ISBN: 1590175751 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781590175750
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 9780.00 T
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Описание: A hilarious satire about college life and high class manners, this is a classic of postwar English literature.

Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jim remains as trenchant, withering, and eloquently misanthropic as when it first scandalized readers in 1954. This is the story of Jim Dixon, a hapless lecturer in medieval history at a provincial university who knows better than most that "there was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones." Kingsley Amis's scabrous debut leads the reader through a gallery of emphatically English bores, cranks, frauds, and neurotics with whom Dixon must contend in one way or another in order to hold on to his cushy academic perch and win the girl of his fancy.

More than just a merciless satire of cloistered college life and stuffy postwar manners, Lucky Jim is an attack on the forces of boredom, whatever form they may take, and a work of art that at once distills and extends an entire tradition of English comic writing, from Fielding and Dickens through Wodehouse and Waugh. As Christopher Hitchens has written, "If you can picture Bertie or Jeeves being capable of actual malice, and simultaneously imagine Evelyn Waugh forgetting about original sin, you have the combination of innocence and experience that makes this short romp so imperishable."

Автор: Amis, Kingsley
Название: Memoirs
ISBN: 0099461064 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099461067
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Elegant, provocative and hugely entertaining, Kingsley Amis`s memoirs are filled with anecdotes, experiences and portraits of famous friends, family, acquaintances (and a few eminent foes).

Автор: Amis, Kingsley
Название: Old devils
ISBN: 0099461056 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099461050
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Описание: Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one main ambition left in life: to drink Wales dry. But their routine is both shaken and stirred when they are joined by professional Welshman Alun Weaver (CBE) and his wife, Rhiannon.

Автор: Kingsley Amis
Название: The Folks That Live On The Hill
ISBN: 0141194308 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141194301
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Harry Caldecote is a convivial academic who devotes his life to others. He is on call when his alcoholic niece falls into strange hands, when his brother threatens to emulate Wordsworth, when his son`s lesbian lodger is beaten up by her girlfriend. He endures misplaced seductions just to keep the peace at the King`s pub in Shepherd`s Hill.

Автор: Kingsley MR Nicholas J.
Название: Glbasic Programmers Reference Guide: Third Edition
ISBN: 1535377070 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781535377072
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 81610.00 T
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Автор: Spurling, Hilary
Название: Anthony Powell
ISBN: 0141030798 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141030791
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 in The Sunday Times, Spectator, Mail on Sunday, Observer and Financial Times'A landmark biography' The Times, Books of the Year'One of our generation's greatest biographers' London Review of Books'Witty, spirited, richly crowded with incident and character - a joy to read' ProspectFrom the author of the prize-winning Matisse The Master comes an essential biography of one of 20th century Britain's greatest literary mindsAnthony Powell: the literary genius who gave us A Dance to the Music of Time, an epic twelve spectacular volume cyle of novels about twentieth century British society. This comic masterpiece teems with idiosyncratic characters, capturing Britain through war and peace in all its eccentricity. And it was inspired by the author's own life immersed in rich social intrigue - debutante balls, penniless muses, publisher feuds, summers on the French Riviera, weekend parties at country houses, and friendships with everyone from Evelyn Waugh to Graham Greene to VS Naipaul...

Hilary Spurling brings all this back to vivid life, investigating the friends, relations, lovers and acquaintances, fools and savants who surrounded Anthony Powell, and who he immortalised in his magnificent literary legacy. *Discover Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time series, available in paperback and e-book from Arrow.

Автор: Kingsley, Charles
Название: Water babies
ISBN: 1853261483 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781853261480
Издательство: Wordsworth
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Описание: Whilst cleaning a chimney, Tom, emerges in the bedroom of Ellie, who mistakes him for a thief. He runs away, and hot and bothered he slips into a cooling stream, falls asleep and becomes a Water Baby. After an arduous quest to the Other-end-of-Nowhere he achieves his heart`s desire.

Автор: Kingsley Amis
Название: Girl, 20
ISBN: 0141194243 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141194240
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Описание: Douglas Yandell, a youngish music critic, is enlisted by Kitty Vandervane to keep an eye on her roving husband - the eminent conductor and would-be radical Sir Roy - as he embarks on yet another affair. Roy, meanwhile, wants Douglas as an alibi for his growing involvement with Sylvia, an unsuitably young woman who loves nothing more than to shock.