Lucky Jim Dear Illusion: Collected Stories Ending Up Girl, 20 Collected Poems: 1944-1979 About this book A hilarious satire about college life and high class manners, this is a classic of postwar English literature. Amis brings a wide swath of human experience under his inveterate microscope in this irreverent and intoxicating collection of short stories. A grotesque and memorable dance of death, full of bickering, bitching, backstabbing, and drinking. It is a book about dying people and about a dying England. In this anatomy of the flower-power phase of the 1960s, a young music critic is enlisted by the wife of an eminent conductor to keep an eye on her husband as he embarks on yet another affair. In this rueful and funny book of verse, Amis unites his favorite subjects from his novels—lust, lost love, booze, money, old age, death—with formal virtuosity. One Fat Englishman Take a Girl Like You The Alteration The Green Man The Old Devils About this book In this satire of Anglo-American relations, Amis sets Roger Micheldene loose on a campus in America, where the gluttonous, boozy Englishman decides to offend all he meets and seduce every woman he encounters. Amis introduces one of the rare unqualified good characters in the author’s rogue-ridden world: Jenny Bunn, a girl from the North English country who moves south with hopes of love and fortune. In this alternate history, it is 1976 but the modern world is a medieval relic. Ten-year-old Hubert Anvil’s extraordinary voice is an asset but he is under pressure to receive a certain operation. This novel is a ghost story that hits a live nerve, in a very black comedy with an uncannily happy ending: in other words, Kingsley Amis at his best. Amis’s old devils have a routine of nattering, complaining, and drinking, which is thrown into chaos when an old friend and rival (now a successful writer) returns to town.