The Folks That Live on the Hill by Kingsley Amis

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The Folks That Live on the Hill deals with the functioning of a community. It studies how people form relationships and how they interact. In the novel, the root of the community is the extended "family" that centers on Harry Caldecote, a respected librarian. His immediate family consists of a sister, a brother, the brother's wife, and son. Beyond his blood relationships the concept of family extends to include people like Bunty, who...

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Kingsley Amis Biographies (5)

Kingsley Amis

6,401 words, approx. 22 pages

Biography EssayMore than thirty-five years after the turbulence attending the publication of his overwhelmingly popular first novel, Lucky Jim (1954), Kingsley Amis remains a controversial figure in ... Read more

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More than twenty-five years after the turbulence attending the publication of his overwhelmingly popular first novel, Lucky Jim (1954), Kingsley Amis remains a controversial figure in English letters.... Read more

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7,398 words, approx. 25 pages

"Crisp, witty, sardonic...." That is one way to introduce Kingsley Amis, the way one editor, Edward Lucie-Smith, took in 1970. Amis's wit began to delight the world in 1954 when his first novel, Lucky... Read more

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Although he is an accomplished poet and essayist, Kingsley Amis has always been best known as a novelist. In fact, his importance as an essayist is bound up with the astonishing success of his first n... Read more

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5,943 words, approx. 20 pages

Author of seventeen novels, three poetry collections, and more than twenty short stories, Kingsley Amis is a writer whose literary style defies categorization. In Kingsley Amis (1989) Richard Bradford... Read more

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