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| | 2. |  | Lucky Jim (Penguin Classics)
from Penguin Classics
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Jim Dixon is in his first year as a college lecturer and he's been in trouble nearly from the second he arrived...unfortunately, since he's also on probation, he's panicking a great deal that he'll lose his job. He despises his boss - an elderly, absent minded and rather self important gentleman... more info
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| | 3. |  | The Green Man
from Academy Chicago Publishers
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Kingsley Amis's 'The Green Man' is an interesting mix of horror and satire. Maurice Allington is the alcoholic owner of The Green Man Inn, whose main preoccupation is trying to convince his wife and mistress to have a menage a trois. The Green Man Inn dates back several centuries and is reputed to... more info
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| | 4. |  | Lucky Jim
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because, most likely, it will provoke loud screams of laughter and you'll embarrass yourself. Lucky Jim is the story of Jim Dixon, a lowly lecturer at an English university. In order to keep his job, he must suck up to the fabulously annoying professor, Ned Welch. He's also saddled with an annoying... more info
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| | 6. |  | Lucky Jim (Penguin Modern Classics)
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I think you simply have to be an academic to fully enjoy the comedy of Lucky Jim. Not that the jokes lost any of their flair over last half a century, Jim's misfortunes have a slapstick quality to them which can be funny even in Elizabethan comedies. Their full quality, however, is visible only to... more info
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| | 7. | [no image] | Old Devils: A Novel
from Harpercollins
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Kingsley Amis was into his 60's when this book appeared, I am almost out of mine by now so I thought it was time I read it, and I am very pleased that I have. If you know Amis's style you will find this novel very typical of it. If you don't know his style it is still very typical of it. It is... more info
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| | 8. |  | The Anti-death League
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Randy soldiers (homo and hetero); a nymphomaniac aristocrat who entertains, seriatim, officers in her country house; a mad psychiatrist at the army mental hospital; a semi-agnostic and non-judgmental padre; a mad security officer; an army officer and an ex-mental hospital patient in love with each... more info
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| | 9. |  | Jake's Thing
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Anyone who has had to seek out an elusive medical diagnosis should laugh aloud. The novel is scabrous and cringe-inducing---and uproariously funny. It should be required reading in all medical schools.
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| | 10. |  | The Biographer's Moustache
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SIR KINGSLEY AMIS DIED ON OCTOBER 22, 1995. THIS WAS HIS LAST NOVEL. First Edition hardcover, published in London by Flamingo, a division of HarperCollins. A GOOD COLLECTOR'S BOOK. Dust cover with original first-issue art. The book is bound in black buckram with bright gold spine lettering. A... more info
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