Best Selling Books by Kingsley Amis

A near-future dystopia showing Britain under repressive post-communist Russian rule.

Jim has fallen into a job at one of the new red brick universities. A moderately successful future beckons as long as Jim can survive a madrigal-singing weekend, deliver a lecture on merrie England and resist Christine, the girlfriend of Professor Welch''s son, Bertrand.

Three stories of army life, three stories of postwar England, and a piece of science fiction.

An excellent short introduction to the life and work of English short-story writer, poet, and novelest, Rudyard Kipling, who was the first English writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize. Amis, one of today''s most admired writers, heightens our perception of Kipling''s character and his great achievements.