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Weve discounted annual subscriptions by 50% for covid19. Take a girl like you amis, kingsley take a girl like you may well be kingsley amis s most ambitious reckoning with the serious subject at the heart of his work. Kingsley amis s most ambitious reckoning with his central themethe degradation of modern life take a girl like you also introduces one of the rare unqualified good guys in amis s rogueridden world. Take a girl like you is a 2000 british television comedy series adapted by andrew davies from the 1960 novel take a girl like you by kingsley amis. Synopsis take a girl like you is a comic novel by kingsley amis. Take a girl like you in its th anniversary season, pbs masterpiece theatre will certainly help to dispel its lingering reputation as a series of stodgy costumers with this sex farce based on. Jenny bunn, a girl from the english north country come south to teach. The opening titles in funky 1970 font are accompanied by the foundations singing the title song, the hook of which sounds a lot like fly me to the moon aka in other words. He was a writer, known for the new adventures of lucky jim 1982, the further adventures of lucky jim 1967 and take a girl like you 1970.

Take a girl like you book multnomah county library. Take a girl like you ebook by kingsley amis, christian lorentzen. First of a threepart drama based on the novel by kingsley amis and starring rupert graves and sienna guillory. This perceptive coming of age novel about a northern girl who moves south, wants to fit in and yet wants to preserve her principles, challenges our. Aug 24, 2018 one of the lesserknown names on the list was patrick standish, the main male character in take a girl like you, kingsley amis s 1960 novel.

Buy take a girl like you by amis, kingsley from amazons fiction books store. Take a girl like you by kingsley amis penguin random house. This perceptive coming of age novel about a northern girl who moves south, wants to fit in and yet wants to preserve her principles, challenges our assumptions about the battle of the sexes and classes in. Take a girl like you nyrb classics amis, kingsley, lorentzen, christian on. It is amis first novel and won the somerset maugham award for fiction. It also introduces one of the rare unqualified good guys in amis s rogueridden world. He also published several collections of short stories, poetry and. Take a girl like you comic novel by the author kingsley. If this film were set when kingsley amis, the novelist, set it, and when fly me to the moon had its first success mid1950s it might work better. Take a girl like you nyrb classics kindle edition by. Lucky jim is a novel by kingsley amis, published in 1954 by victor gollancz. Android, iphone, ipad or pc directly, the following. William amis s father, the glass merchant joseph james amis, owned a mansion called barchester at purley, then part.

Set sometime around 1950, lucky jim follows the exploits of the eponymous james jim dixon, a reluctant medieval history lecturer at an unnamed provincial english university. Take a girl like you may well be kingsley amis s most ambitious reckoning with the serious subject at the heart of his work. Take a girl like you bbc one london 26 november 2000. Kingsley amis opened his career with the novel that remained his most famous work to the end of his life.

In kingsley amis s take a girl like you, twenty year old jenny bunn is supernally beautiful and stubbornly chaste, which is why patrick standish, an arrogant schoolmaster, wants her so much. In 1954, lucky jim had made him the leading novelist of his generation. His next two novels were generally regarded as disappointments, at least relative to lucky jim. Take a girl like you is a comic novel by kingsley amis. Documented as a personal favorite of kingsley amis, take a girl like you, originally published in 1960, is peopled with subsidiary characters, ranging from the posh and pedantic to the proletarian and pessimistic. In kingsley amiss take a girl like you, twenty year old jenny bunn is supernally. Jan 06, 2020 over 25 years ago, kingsley amis wrote take a girl like you, a comedy about a lusty young couple, patrick and jenny, each engaged with equal ardor in gaining an opposite goal he with getting her into bed, she with staying out of it. Its fair to say that in the late 1950s kingsley amis was riding high. Twentyyearold jenny bunn comes from up north to work as an infants school teacher in a town just outside london. Take a girl like you by kingsley amis, paperback barnes. The great satiristwriterdirector jonathan millers only venture into cinema, take a girl like you 1970 is an adaptation of the kingsley amis novel about a virginal young woman, jenny hayley mills, in one of her first adult roles, and the men who pursue her, particularly patrick oliver reed, who finds that deeper feelings may.

The narrative follows the progress of twentyyearold jenny bunn, who has moved from her family home in the north of england to a small town not far from london to teach primary school children. Its a slight and unwieldy affair that i found rather appalling in terms of subject matter as cold and unyielding as a film gets when it comes to a relationship drama. It is with his fourth novel, take a girl like you, that amis again hit his stride. Take a girl like you is a tad different from the old letchs other works that ive read. Blurb take a girl like you is a comic novel by kingsley amis. The clarissa of the novel is jenny bunn, a beautiful, gauche, yet virtuous primary school teacher, who spends the majority of the novel trying to resist. He was a writer, known for the further adventures of lucky jim 1967, take a girl like you 1970 and the new adventures of lucky jim 1982. It starred sienna guillory, rupert graves, hugh bonneville, robert daws, leslie phillips, emma chambers, ian driver and deborah cornelius. Kingsley amis has been described as the finest english comic novelist of the second half of the twentieth century. Based on a novel by kingsley amis, this film follows the london arrival of jenny bunn hayley mills, the parent trap, an attractive young teacher from the. The more i read kingsley amis, the more i like him. Apr 05, 20 in kingsley amis s take a girl like you, twenty year old jenny bunn is supernally beautiful and stubbornly chaste, which is why patrick standish, an arrogant schoolmaster, wants her so much. An authorized biography argues that kingsley amis was a dominant figure in postwar british writing in his roles as novelist, poet, critic, and polemicist, tracing his early years, as well as his life as a teacher, husband, and father. Born in london, amis explored his disillusionment in novels such as that uncertain feeling 19.

Take a girl like you by kingsley amis and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Take a girl like you by kingsley amis penguin books australia. Set in the 1950s, it follows the progress of twenty year old jenny bunn, as she moves from her family ho. Complete summary of kingsley amis take a girl like you. Buy take a girl like you 9780141194271 by kingsley amis for only. Take a girl like you nyrb classics kindle edition by amis. Take a girl like you ebook por kingsley amis 9781590177983.

Born in 1922, he wrote over twenty novels, including lucky jim 1954, winner of the somerset maugham award for fiction, the old devils 1986, which won the booker prize, and the biographers moustache 1995. Take a girl like you should have been a better novel than it turned out to be. Kingsley amis was born on april 16, 1922 in london, england as kingley amis. In kingsley amiss take a girl like you, twenty year old jenny bunn is supernally beautiful and stubbornly chaste, which is why patrick. Take a girl like you by kingsley amis librarything. Set in the 1950s, it follows the progress of twenty year old jenny bunn, as she moves from her family home in the north of england to a london suburb to teach primary school children. Jenny bunn, a girl from the north english country has come south to teach school in a small smug town where she hopes to find love and fortune. Take a girl like you by kingsley amis penguin books. Snow and pamela hansford johnson, william coopers scenes from life comes to us as the fountainhead of the english angryyoungman school. Oct 14, 2016 take a girl like you 1960 considered to be a reinterpretation of richardsons clarissa, take a girl like you is an ebulliently funny, yet nuanced, exploration of sexual relations. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction.

If you are unsure how best to edit this programme please take a moment to read it. May 04, 2015 a still from the 1970 film version of take a girl like you. Conversations with kingsley amis university press of. Take a girl like you is a filmed adaptation of a kingsley amis novel, directed by theatre figurehead jonatha miller. Young jenny bunn comes to infantteach outside of london and is quite determined to lose the narrowminded ideas of her north country home. Take a girl like you penguin modern classics ebook. From a novel by kingsley amis, adapted by george melly, and directed by jonathan. Over 25 years ago, kingsley amis wrote take a girl like you, a comedy about a lusty young couple, patrick and jenny, each engaged with equal ardor in gaining an opposite goal he with getting her into bed, she with staying out of it. Take a girl like you by kingsley amis first edition. The daughter of a north england hearse driver, miss bunn is prim and proper until she attends a party at. Take a girl like you may well be kingsley amiss most ambitious reckoning with the serious subject at the heart of his work. The narrative follows the progress of twentyyearold jenny bunn, who has moved from her family home. She is helped on her way by the owners of her digs, dick and martha thompson, a fellow boarder, anna le page, assorted acquaintances and patrick standish, teaching in a nearby college, who resists falling seriously in love with her.

Its heroine is a genuinely good girl surrounded by leering men who want to sample her virginity. Not bad, but perhaps too hopelessly dated to work even as a quirky original. He was married to elizabeth jane howard and hilary ann bardwell. Family reading and writing city of london cls at marlborough wartime oxford the war postwar oxford. Interviews with the acclaimed author of lucky jim, the antideath league, and take a girl like you description soon after kingsley amis 19221995 published his first novel, lucky jim, in 1954, he became an object of literary and journalistic scrutiny. The action ricochets across the globe to a volcanic greek island where. The tone is often truculent and plainspoken, but its diction and style. Take a girl like you nyrb classics kindle edition by amis, kingsley, lorentzen, christian. Take a girl like you by kingsley amis, take a girl like you books available in pdf, epub, mobi format. Take a girl like you nyrb classics by kingsley amis.