The Green Man (New York Review Books Classics)

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I thought to myself how much more welcome a faculty the imagination would be if we could tell when it was at work and when not.” urn:oclc:869299964 Republisher_date 20140424073111 Republisher_operator [email protected];[email protected] Scandate 20140421034620 Scanner scribe11.shenzhen.archive.org Scanningcenter shenzhen Worldcat (source edition) In 1940, the Amises moved to Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, and Amis (like his father before him) won a scholarship to the City of London School. [10] In April 1941, after his first year, he was admitted on a scholarship to St John's College, Oxford, where he read English. There he met Philip Larkin, with whom he formed the most important friendship of his life. [11] Culture Trip launched in 2011 with a simple yet passionate mission: to inspire people to go beyond their boundaries and experience what makes a place, its people and its culture special and meaningful — and this is still in our DNA today. We are proud that, for more than a decade, millions like you have trusted our award-winning recommendations by people who deeply understand what makes certain places and communities so special. The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460 . Retrieved 26 September 2020.

The main character runs an historic British wayside inn, The Green Man. He lives there with his second wife and pre-teen age daughter from his first marriage. His elderly father also lives with them. Book Genre: British Literature, Classics, European Literature, Fantasy, Fiction, Ghosts, Gothic, Horror, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels, Paranormal The novel also has some fun sexcapades, including Maurice’s ridiculous attempt to get his wife Joyce into a threesome with his best friend’s wife, Diana. Amis’s characters always seem to have plenty of attention from women but they always find a way to mess things up. Amis never really bothers to give his women any depth generally painting them merely as sex objects.

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The King's English: A Guide to Modern Usage (name in part a pun as he was sometimes called "Kingers" or "The King" by friends and family, as told by his son Martin in his memoir Experience)

Otherwise, it's an enjoyable story, but at the same time, it's far from superficial. Obviously, ghosts and death go hand in hand, but here death is treated largely from the existentialist point of view, as is, of course, life. So it makes one think about one's obsessions, fears, and actions, - but not in a way that would be incompatible with a drink :) What makes The Green Man readable and re-readable is the skill with which Amis, like Henry James before him, turns the narrative screw. It is, quite simply, a rattling good ghost story.”You see, in medieval myth, a Green Man is the symbol of the Devil. Amis' Green Man is in the fantasies of a drunken and morally besotted manager of an English B & B, and the Green Man eventually seizes the man's soul (or at least that inference is there for us Christians).