Complete Stories
Complete Stories by Kingsley Amis is a comprehensive collection that showcases the author’s mastery of post-war comic prose. Published by Penguin Books Limited on June 2, 2011, this first edition spans 514 pages and is presented in English. The anthology gathers all of Amis’s short fiction, offering a diverse range of narratives that reflect his unique style and wit over five decades.
Readers will encounter a variety of stories that blend dark humor with playful elements, including ingenious alternative histories and satirical reflections. The collection features notable pieces such as “The 2003 Claret,” where a time machine is invented to explore future tastes, and “Boris and the Colonel,” which uncovers a spy in the English countryside. Amis’s work reveals both the breadth of his imagination and the warmth underlying his acerbic humor, making this collection a significant addition to the literary canon of short stories.
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The short stories of Kingsley Amis – the great master of post-war comic prose – are dark, playful, moving, surprising and extremely funny. This definitive collection gathers all Amis�s short fiction in a single volume for the first time and encompasses five decades of storytelling. In �The 2003 Claret�, written in 1958, a time machine is invented for the weighty task of sending a man to 2010 to discover what the booze will taste like. In �Boris and the Colonel� a Cambridge spy is unearthed in the sleepy English countryside with the help of a plucky horse, while In �Mason�s Life� two men meet inside their respective dreams. The collection spans many genres, offering ingenious alternative histories, mystery and horror, satirical reflections and a devilishly funny attacks. Amis�s stories reveal the scope of his imagination and the warmth beneath his acerbic humour, and they all share the unmistakable style and wit of one of Britain�s best loved writers.
With a new foreword by Rachel Cusk.
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