Kingsley Amis has written at least 44 books. Their most popular book is Lucky Jim with 96 saves with an average rating of 3.37⭐.
They are best known for writing in the genres Classics, Fiction, and Comics.
KingsleyAmis, the author of *Lucky Jim*, was born in the south of London in 1922. His first interest in literature was in the field of poetry. At the age of eleven he was writing verse, at the university he was one of the editors of *Oxford Poetry 1949*, and his own poetry has been published in two books: *A Frame of Mind* and *A Case of Samples*. His name is often to be seen in British newspapers and magazines as the writer of articles and reviews.
Lucky Jim, published in 1954, was Amis's first novel. It was something so different, so fresh and so brilliantly clever that the critics welcomed it with excitement.
Kingsley Amis is a university lecturer in English. In Lucky Jim he takes us into a world he knows well; it is set in a university college ' somewhere in England', but you need not have seen a British university to enjoy this book.
1954 • 96 Readers • 276 pages • 3.4
1986 • 15 Readers • 381 pages • 1
#15 of 50 in James Bond - Extended Series
1968 • 11 Readers • 221 pages • 3.3
1969 • 9 Readers • 222 pages • 2
1976 • 9 Readers • 256 pages • 3.8
1974 • 7 Readers • 184 pages
#1 of 1 in Patrick Standish and Jenny Bunn
1960 • 6 Readers • 320 pages • 2
1976 • 6 Readers • 240 pages • 4
5 Readers • 3
1969 • 5 Readers • 240 pages • 4
1963 • 5 Readers • 193 pages • 3
1971 • 4 Readers • 267 pages • 4
4 Readers
1984 • 3 Readers • 302 pages • 3
1973 • 3 Readers • 199 pages • 4
1960 • 2 Readers • 154 pages • 5
1985 • 2 Readers • 252 pages
2 Readers
1984 • 2 Readers • 2
1984 • 1 Reader • 302 pages
2007 • 1 Reader • 512 pages
#7 of 12 in The Year's Best Science Fiction
1974 • 1 Reader • 255 pages
1 Reader
1954 • 1 Reader • 220 pages
1954 • 1 Reader • 345 pages
1954 • 1 Reader • 368 pages • 4
1991 • 1 Reader • 658 pages
1962 • 1 Reader • 60 pages • 4
1 Reader
1 Reader
1984 • 1 Reader
1968 • 1 Reader • 255 pages • 1
1990 • 1 Reader
#15 of 50 in James Bond - Extended Series
1968 • 1 Reader
1976 • 1 Reader • 256 pages
1954 • 1 Reader • 296 pages • 5
2011 • 1 Reader • 592 pages
1962 • 1 Reader • 545 pages
1968 • 1 Reader • 240 pages
1997 • 1 Reader • 292 pages
2012 • 352 pages
1996 • 270 pages
1981 • 370 pages