by Kingsley Amis · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140235715
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«Mr. Barrett's Secret and Other Stories» is the short story collection by Kingsley Amis, published by Penguin in paperback (192 pages, in English).
This book brings together six stories by Kingsley Amis: Mr. Barrett's unease about his daughter's relationship with the poet Browning, a literary agent taken hostage, and a vicar who discovers an identical twin he never knew he had. The Observer described the collection as «six of the Amis best».
The collection was first published by Hutchinson in 1993; this Penguin edition is from October 1994.
Recommended for fans of literary fiction and short stories, with an interest in contemporary British literature.
Sir Kingsley William Amis was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, short stories, radio and television scripts, and works of social and literary criticism. He is best known for satirical comedies such as Lucky Jim (1954), One Fat Englishman (1963), Ending Up (1974), Jake's Thing (1978) and The Old Devils (1986). His biographer Zachary Leader called Amis "the finest English comic novelist of the second half of the twentieth century." In 2008, The Times ranked him ninth on a list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. He was the father of the novelist Martin Amis. Amis was knighted in 1990.
