The Green Man

Informationen zum Autor Kingsley Amis was born in south London in 1922 and was educated at the City of London School and St John's College, Oxford. After the publication of Lucky Jim in 1954, Kingsley Amis wrote over twenty novels, including The Alteration, winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, The Old Devils , winner of the Booker Prize in 1986, and The Biographer's Moustache, which was to be his last book. He also wrote on politics, education, language, films, television, restaurants and drink. Kingsley Amis was awarded the CBE in 1981 and received a knighthood in 1990. He died in October 1995. Klappentext Like all good coaching inns, The Green Man is said to boast a resident ghost: Dr Thomas Underhill, a notorious seventeenth-century practitioner of black arts and sexual deviancy. Led by an anxious desire to vindicate his sanity, Allington strives to uncover the key to Underhill's satanic powers. Zusammenfassung Like all good coaching inns, The Green Man is said to boast a resident ghost: Dr Thomas Underhill, a notorious seventeenth-century practitioner of black arts and sexual deviancy. Led by an anxious desire to vindicate his sanity, Allington strives to uncover the key to Underhill's satanic powers.

Product details

• Authors: Kingsley Amis
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2004
• EAN: 9780099461074
• ISBN: 978-0-09-946107-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; VINTAGE CLASSICS
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Ghost, FICTION / Horror, Classic fiction, Horror and supernatural fiction, Classic fiction: general and literary, satan; ghost stories; vintage classics