The Folks That Live On The Hill by Kingsley Amis
Harry Caldecote is the most charming man you'll ever meet, a convivial academic who devotes his life to others. He is on call when his alcoholic niece falls into strange hands, when his brother threatens to emulate Wordsworth, when his son's lesbian lodger is beaten up by her girlfriend. He endures misplaced seductions, swindles and aggressive dogs just to keep the peace at the King's pub in Shepherd's Hill. But when the Adams' Institute of Cultural and Commercial History in America offers him the opportunity to do 'whatever he wanted to do' in a picturesque lakeside town, he faces a choice between freedom or responsibility - and whether to take charge of his own life.-
Of Mice and Men
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The Great Gatsby
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A Month in the Country
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East of Eden
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Giovanni's Room
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In Cold Blood
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An Inspector Calls and Other Plays
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A Streetcar Named Desire
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Animal Farm
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Alone in Berlin
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Wide Sargasso Sea
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
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The Grapes of Wrath
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The Man in the High Castle
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On the Road
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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Lolita
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Brideshead Revisited
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The Haunting of Hill House
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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A Clockwork Orange
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Orientalism
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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The Crucible
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Ways of Seeing
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
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Tokyo Express
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A Confederacy of Dunces
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Death of a Salesman
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The Wretched of the Earth
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Things Fall Apart
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The Lonely Londoners
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Dubliners
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Down and Out in Paris and London
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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The Night Manager
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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The Myth of Sisyphus
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Mrs Dalloway
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Caliban and the Witch
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The Road to Wigan Pier
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Homage to Catalonia
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Ulysses
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The Go-between
Like Waugh he is a consummate writer of sentences, a mordant practitioner of perfected English prose.. Amis's gift for outrage is as alert as ever * Independent *
Sometimes sharply funny, sometimes bluntly genial, altogether the most successful book he has written for years * Sunday Times *
Sometimes sharply funny, sometimes bluntly genial, altogether the most successful book he has written for years * Sunday Times *
Kingsley Amis's (1922-95) works take a humorous yet highly critical look at British society, especially in the period following the end of World War II. Born in London, Amis explored his disillusionment in novels such as That Uncertain Feeling (1955). His other works include The Green Man (1970), Stanley and the Women (1984), and The Old Devils (1986), which won the Booker Prize. Amis also wrote poetry, criticism, and short stories.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780141194301 |
| ISBN 10 | 0141194308 |
| Title | The Folks That Live On The Hill |
| Author | Kingsley Amis |
| Series | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2012-06-07 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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