Kingsley Amis - Kingsley Amis Sir Kingsley Amis (April 22, 1922 - October 22, 1995), was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. Author of twenty novels, three collections of poetry, a number of short stories, and ten books of social or literary criticism. Born in London. He was educated at the City of London School and St. John's College, Oxford. After service in the army with the Royal Corps of Signals he completed his university studies in 1947 and then worked as a lecturer in English at the University of Swansea (1948-61) and in Cambridge (1961-63). Amis achieved popular success with his first novel Lucky Jim, which is often considered the exemplary novel of the Fifties. The novel won the Somerset Maugham award for fiction and Amis was.
Martin Amis - Martin Amis Martin Amis (born August 25, 1949) is an English novelist and son of Kingsley Amis. His first novel The Rachel Papers, is about the adventures of a bright, egotistical teenager (presumably not unlike Amis himself) and his relationship with the eponymous girlfriend in the year before going to University. It is the most traditional of his novels, and still the favourite of some, though it has since been made into a rather unsuccessful film. Dead Babies, more flippant in tone, has a typically Sixties plot, with a house full of characters who abuse various substances and are eventually massacred by a psychopath. A number of Amis characteristics show up here for the first time: mordant black humour, obsession with the zeitgeist, authorial intervention, a character.
James Bond - agent spy invented by and and appearing in books by Ian Fleming (and later Kingsley Amis, John Gardner and Raymond Benson). Bond has an identity number of 007, pronounced: double-oh seven. The 'double-oh' prefix indicates a 'license to kill' in the course of his duty. There are a series of filmss, and some notable videogames about the character. James Bond has become a household name in Britain, with references flying about about "our little James Bond" and "James Bond style security" and so on. Warning: Wikipedia contains spoilers Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Personal Information 2 Overview 3 Bond characters 4 Bond Bits 5 Books 6 Films 6.1 starring Sean Connery 6.2 starring David Niven 6.3 starring George Lazenby 6.4 starring Roger Moore 6.5 starring Timothy Dalton 6.6 starring Pierce Brosnan.
John Wain - one of the angry young men, a term applied to 1950s writers such as John Braine, John Osborne, Alan Sillitoe and Keith Waterhouse. These were thought to be radicals who bitterly opposed the British establishment and conservative elements of society at that time. Wain's work is less angry than his contempories, but perhaps wittier in tone. Another group Wain was involved with was The Inklings, an Oxford literary group with included C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Along with this, he was also associated with The Movement, a group of post-war poets including luminaries such as Kingsley Amis, D.J. Enright, Thom Gunn, Elizabeth Jennings and Philip Larkin. Wain's poetry was criticised more than his other work, with some seen it as brittle and contrived. Novels Hurry on Down (1953) aka Born in.
Ian Fleming - 0-631-13392-5 it is claimed that during the war Fleming conceived the plan that successfully lured Rudolf Hess to fly into captivity in Britain. There's no other source for these claims. Selected works James Bond novels Casino Royale (1953) Live And Let Die (1954) Moonraker (1955) Diamonds Are Forever (1956) From Russia With Love (1957) Doctor No (1958) Goldfinger (1959) For Your Eyes Only (a collection of stories, 1960) Thunderball (1961) The Spy Who Loved Me (1962) On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963) You Only Live Twice (1964) The Man With The Golden Gun (1965; allegedly finished by Kingsley Amis) Octopussy, The Living Daylights And The Property Of A Lady (a collection of stories, 1966) Children's story Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1964) Non-fiction The Diamond Smugglers (1957) Thrilling Cities (1963).
G. K. Chesterton - like George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Bertrand Russell, and Clarence Darrow. Chesterton was usually considered the winner. Chesterton's influence Chesterton's The Everlasting Man led a young atheist named C. S. Lewis to become a Christian. Chesterton's Orthodoxy has become a religious classic. An essay that Chesterton wrote for the Illustrated London News inspired Mohandas Gandhi to lead the movement to end British colonial rule in India. Chesterton's novel The Napoleon of Notting Hill inspired Michael Collins to lead a movement for Irish Independence. Chesterton's writings have been praised by such authors as Ernest Hemingway, Graham Greene, Frederick Buechner, Evelyn Waugh, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Karel Capek, Marshall McLuhan, Paul Claudel, Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie, Sigrid Undset, Ronald Knox, C. S. Lewis, Kingsley Amis, W. H. Auden, Anthony.
Elizabeth Jennings - explicitly autobiographical poetry. Elizabeth Jennings is not an generally regarded as an innovator, and her work displays a simplicity of metre and rhyme that she shares with poets such as Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis and Thom Gunn, all members of a group of English poets known simply as The Movement. 'Absence' is a clearly rhymed, three verse poem, written in a highly romantic, traditional style. The typically simple five line structure, with lines one, three, and five as one rhymed set, and two and four as the other, focuses the attention on the language used and the emotional content, and is ideally suited to the sincere and unpretentious emotions the poem chooses to present. With the exception of lines two and four of the third and final verse ('Force'/'Grass'), all of.
1922 - in sports Births January 7 - Jean-Pierre Rampal, musician January 13 - Albert Lamorisse, film director (†1970) January 17 - Betty White, actress January 17 - Nicholas Katzenbach, politician January 21 - Paul Scofield, actor January 30 - Dick Martin, comedian February 6 - Patrick Macnee, actor February 7 - Hattie Jacques, actress (†1980) February 9 - Kathryn Grayson, actress February 11 - Tudor Jarda, composer. February 15 - John Bayard Anderson, U.S Representative and presidential candidate February 18 - Helen Gurley Brown, editor, publisher February 24 - Richard Hamilton, pop-art painter February 24 - Steven Hill, actor March 1 - Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (†1995) March 1 - William Gaines, publisher, founder of MAD Magazine (†1992) March.
1986 in literature - Purdy It (novel) - Stephen King Kara Kush - Idries Shah Last of the Breed - Louis L'Amour The Light Fantastic - Terry Pratchett Love You Forever - Robert Munsch The Making of the Atomic Bomb - Richard Rhodes A Matter of Honour - Jeffrey Archer The Old Devils - Kingsley Amis A Perfect Spy - John le Carré The Prince of Tides - Pat Conroy Red Storm Rising - Tom Clancy Sportswriter - Richard Ford Wanderlust - Danielle Steel Whirlwind - James Clavell Women of the Left Bank: Paris 1900-1940 - Shari Benstock Births Deaths January 24 - L. Ron Hubbard, science fiction writer, founder of Scientology February 26 - Robert Penn Warren, poet, author March 4 - Elizabeth Smart, Canadian poet and novelist May 15 - Theodore H. White,.
1954 in literature - Frank Yerby The Bridge on the River Kwai (Le pont de la rivière Kwai) - Pierre Boulle The Egyptian - Mika Waltari Histoire d'O (The Story of O) - Pauline Reage The Horse and His Boy - C. S. Lewis Ideas and Opinions - Albert Einstein Katherine - Anya Seton Lord of the Flies - William G. Golding Lord of the Rings : The Fellowship of the Ring - J. R. R. Tolkien Lord of the Rings : The Two Towers - J. R. R. Tolkien Love Is Eternal - Irving Stone Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis Mandarins - Simone de Beauvoir Mary Anne - Daphne du Maurier Nectar in a Sieve - Kamala Markandaya Never Victorious, Never Defeated - Taylor Caldwell No Time for Sergeants - Mac Hyman Not as.
1969 in literature - prove that sex-filled trash sells. It did. New Books The Andromeda Strain - Michael Crichton The Campus Murders - Ellery Queen The Edible Woman - Margaret Atwood The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles The Godfather - Mario Puzo The Green Man - Kingsley Amis The Inheritors - Harold Robbins Jirel of Joiry - C. L. Moore Little Painted Mouths - Manuel Puig The Love Machine - Jacqueline Susann Mary Queen of Scots - Antonia Fraser Naked Came the Stranger - Penelope Ashe Nothing Black But A Cadillac - Raymond Spence A Pocketful of Rye - A.J. Cronin Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth Retour à Roissy - Pauline Réage Sounder - William H. Armstrong The Seven Minutes - Irving Wallace The Street - Mordecai Richler That Godless Woman - Merton H..
Adultery in literature - reputation, and while preventing one's spouse from committing any. The following works of literature have adultery and its consequences as one of their major themes. (M) and (F) stand for adulterer and adulteress respectively. Drama Simon Gray: Japes (F) Arthur Miller: Broken Glass (F) Peter Nichols: Passion Play (M,F) Harold Pinter: The Homecoming (F) William Shakespeare: The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice (no adulterers/esses, though the plot revolves around the perception of adultery) William Shakespeare: The Winter's Tale the suspicion of adultery initiates the plot Richard Wagner: Tristan and Isolde (F) Hugh Whitemore: Disposing of the Body (M,F) Tennessee Williams: Baby Doll (F) William Wycherley: The Country Wife (M,F - in fact pretty much every character in the play) Fiction Kingsley Amis: That Uncertain Feeling (M,F) Malcolm Bradbury: The.
Angry Young Men - radical, sometimes even anarchic, and they described social alienation of different kinds. The group included Kingsley Amis, John Osborne, Alan Sillitoe, John Braine, and Colin Henry Wilson..
April 16 - to downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Births 1755 - Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, painter († 1842) 1844 - Anatole France, narrator and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature 1921 († 1924) 1867 - Wilbur Wright, pioneer pilot († 1912) 1886 - Ernst Thälmann, politician († 1944) 1889 - Charlie Chaplin, actor, writer and film producer († 1977) 1904 - Fifi D'Orsay, actress († 1983) 1918 - Spike Milligan, comedian 1919 - Merce Cunningham, dancer, choreographer 1921 - Peter Ustinov, writer, actor and film director 1922 - Kingsley Amis, author († 1995) 1924 - Henry Mancini, film and TV composer, "Moon River", Peter Gunn 1927 - Joseph Ratzinger, cardinal 1930 - Herbie Mann, jazz flute player 1935 - Sarah Kirsch, lyricist 1939 - Dusty Springfield, singer († 1999) 1940 - Queen Margaret II of Denmark.
April 22 - one of the most publicized custody battles in US history. Births 1451 - Isabella of Castile 1550 - Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain of England († 1604) 1707 - Henry Fielding, author († 1754) 1724 - Immanuel Kant, philosopher († 1804) 1766 - Madame de Staël, author († 1817) 1812 - Solomon Caesar Malan, orientalist (†1894) 1840 - Odilon Redon, painter († 1916) 1870 (N.S) - Vladimir Lenin, revolutionary, state leader († 1924) 1873 - Ellen Glasgow, Pulitzer Prize winning author 1876 - Robert_Barany. Nobel Prize winner in medicine 1891 - Harold Jeffreys, astronomer († 1989) 1899 - Vladimir Nabokov, writer († 1977) 1904 - Robert Oppenheimer, physicist († 1967) 1914 - Jan de Hartog, writer († 2002) 1916 - Yehudi Menuhin, violinist (†.
Brian Aldiss - was published. By this time, his earnings from writing equalled the wages he got in the bookshop, so he made the decision to become a full-time writer. He was voted the Most Promising New Author at the World Science Fiction Convention in 1958, and elected President of the British Science Fiction Association in 1960. He was the literary editor of the Oxford Mail newspaper during the 1960s. Around 1964 he and his long-time collaborator Harry Harrison started the first ever journal of science fiction criticism, Science Fiction Horizons, which during its brief span of two issues published articles and reviews by such authors as James Blish, and featured a discussion between Aldiss, C.S. Lewis, and Kingsley Amis in the first issues, and an interview with William S. Burroughs in the second..
Brigid Brophy - In response to her outspokenness, Brophy was labeled many things, including "one of our leading literary shrews" by a Times Literary Supplement reviewer. "A lonely, ubiquitous toiler in the weekend graveyards, she has scored some direct hits on massive targets: Kingsley Amis, Henry Miller, Professor Wilson Knight." Writings by the Author: Fiction The Crown Princess and Other Stories, Viking (New York, NY), 1953. Hackenfeller's Ape, Hart-Davis (London), 1953, Random House (New York, NY), 1954, Virago Press (London), 1991. The King of a Rainy Country, Secker & Warburg (London), 1956, Knopf (New York, NY), 1957, reprinted with afterword, Virago, 1990. Flesh, Secker & Warburg, 1962, World (Cleveland, OH), 1963. The Finishing Touch (also see below), Secker & Warburg, 1963, revised edition, GMP (London), 1987. The Snow Ball (also see below), Secker &.
Campbell award (best novel) - weekend-long conference that also includes discussions of the writing, illustration, publishing, teaching, and criticism of science fiction. Recipients 1973 - Beyond Apollo, Barry N. Malzberg 1974 (tie) - Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke; Malevil, Robert Merle 1975 - Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said, Philip K. Dick 1976 - The Year of the Quiet Sun, Wilson Tucker (special retroactive award) 1977 - The Alteration, Kingsley Amis 1978 - Gateway, Frederik Pohl 1979 - Gloriana, Michael Moorcock 1980 - On Wings of Song, Thomas M. Disch 1981 - Timescape, Gregory Benford 1982 - Riddley Walker, Russell Hoban 1983 - Helliconia Spring, Brian W. Aldiss 1984 - The Citadel of the Autarch, Gene Wolfe 1985 - The Years of the City, Frederik Pohl 1986 - The Postman, David Brin 1987 - A.
The Man with the Golden Gun - is a James Bond novel by Ian Fleming. The manuscript was discovered after his death, and edited by Kingsley Amis before publication. The title character is Francisco Scaramanga, a high-priced assassin and adversary of Bond. The Man with the Golden Gun is also the 9th James Bond film, released in 1974, with a plot very loosely based on the book. The movie stars Roger Moore as James Bond, Christopher Lee as Francisco Scaramanga, Britt Ekland and Maud Adams. The theme tune, The Man With The Golden Gun, was performed by Lulu. Filming locations for the movie include: Hong Kong. See Hong Kong in films External Link IMDB entry for the movie.
School and university in literature - England Patrick Redmond: The Wishing Game Heinrich Spoerl: Die Feuerzangenbowle Josephine Tey: Miss Pym Disposes Friedrich Torberg: Der Schüler Gerber Nigel Williams: Class Enemy Richard Yates: A Good School University in literature: Kingsley Amis: Lucky Jim Malcolm Bradbury: The History Man Robertson Davies: The Rebel Angels Stephen Fry: Making History John Kenneth Galbraith: A Tenured Professor Thomas Hughes: Tom Brown at Oxford David Lodge: The British Museum Is Falling Down David Lodge: Changing Places David Lodge: Nice Work David Lodge: Thinks David Mamet: Oleanna Tim Parks: Europa Ellery Queen: The Campus Murders Philip Roth: The Human Stain Willy Russell: Educating Rita Dorothy L. Sayers: Gaudy Night Dietrich Schwanitz: Der Campus Tom Sharpe: Wilt Jane Smiley: Moo Hillary Waugh: Last Seen Wearing (Please add to this list).
