This item: The Green Man. by Kingsley Amis Paperback. £ In stock. Sent from and sold by Amazon. £ delivery. Girl, 20 (Penguin Modern Classics) by Kingsley Amis Paperback. £Reviews: This is a near fine copy of Kingsley Amis' 'The Green Man' in first edition, first printing. London, Jonathan Cape, The jacket is without marks or tears, and has slight shelf wear at the tail- it has been price clipped. The boards are free from chips and marks, and the book is free from previous owners ink. The textblocks are bright and presentable, and the binding is tight. Complete summary of Kingsley Amis' The Green Man. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Green Man.
Kingsley Amis's The Green Man was first published in , just as the great s boom in horror fiction was about to begin. Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby had already appeared in , and was followed by William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist (), Thomas Tryon's The Other (), Stephen King's Carrie (), and Peter Straub's. www.doorway.ru: The Green Man () by Kingsley Amis and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. The Green Man by Kingsley Amis. Start Free Trial Study Guide Questions Answers Study Guide There is in a sense only one fully realized character in The Green Man, and that is the narrator.
The Green Man is an English country pub run by a typical Kingsley Amis progatonist, a smart, ironical alcoholic philanderer named Maurice Allingham. The pub is haunted by a wicked seventeenth-century scholar and murderer in the Faustian mode named Thomas Underhill. Kingsley Amis' sole horror novel, "The Green Man," had long been on my list of "must read" books, for the simple reason that it has been highly recommended by three sources that I trust. British critic David Pringle chose it for inclusion in his overview volume "Modern Fantasy: The Best Novels," as did Michael Moorcock in "Fantasy: The Best Books" AND Brian Aldiss in "Horror: Best Books.". The Green Man is a novel by British author Kingsley Amis. A Times Literary Supplement reviewer described The Green Man as "three genres of novel in one": ghost story, moral fable, and comic novel. The novel reflects Amis's willingness to experiment with genre novels (e.g., The Alteration (science fiction/alternate history), or Colonel Sun: (A James Bond Adventure) while displaying many of the characteristics of his conventional novels, both in superficial aspects such as fogeyishness and pr.
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