by Kingsley Amis · Macmillan · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780312206574
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«The King's English: A Guide to Modern Usage» is Kingsley Amis's guide to modern English usage, published by Macmillan in paperback (288 pages).
In this guide Kingsley Amis surveys modern English with irony and discernment, offering opinions on grammar, style and pronunciation. Far from being a neutral manual, the author defends his preferences with wit and humour, so the volume also works as a personal and controversial read on how to write and speak well.
The edition with ISBN 9780312206574 was published in August 1999 and carries the subtitle 'A Guide to Modern Usage'.
For enthusiasts of the English language and readers seeking a style guide with opinions of its own.
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.
