Complete Stories (Penguin Modern Classics)

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-04-04 Pages: 528 Language: English Publisher: Penguin Classics 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 Amiss 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 Masons 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. Amiss stories reveal the...