A Kingsley Amis Checklist Listed here are all Amis's works in book form, and a selection of pieces by and about him, including interviews, which have been extensively used in the preparation of this study. The checklist is organised in two sections: 1. Primary Sources; 2. Secondary Sources. 1 PRIMARY SOURCES 1.1 Novels Lucky Jim (London: Victor Gollancz, and New York: Doubleday, 1954). That Uncertain Feeling (London: Victor Gollancz, 1955; New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1956). I Like It Here (London: Victor Gollancz, and New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1958). Take A Girl Like You (London: Victor Gollancz, 1960; New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1961). One Fat Englishman (London: Victor Gollancz, 1963; New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1964). The Egyptologists (with Robert Conquest) (London: Jonathan Cape, 1965; New York: Random House, 1966). The Anti-Death League (London: Jonathan Cape, and New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1966). Colonel Sun (as 'Robert Markham'), (London: Jonathan Cape, and New York: Harper and Row, 1968). I Want It Now (London: Jonathan Cape, 1968; New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1969). The Green Man (London: Jonathan Cape, 1969; New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970). Girl, 20 (London: Jonathan Cape, 1971; New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972). The Riverside Villas Murder (London: Jonathan Cape and New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973). Ending Up (London: Jonathan Cape, 1973; New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974). 243 244 Kingsley Amis: An English Moralist The Alteration (London: Jonathan Cape, 1976; New York: Viking Press, 1977). Jake's Thing (London: Hutchinson, 1978; New York: Viking Press, 1978). Russian Hide-and-Seek (London: Hutchinson, 1980). Stanley and the Women (London: Hutchinson, 1984; New York: Summit, 1985). The Old Devils (London: Hutchinson, 1986; New York: Summit, 1987). The Crime of the Century (London: J. M. Dent, 1987). The novels are progressively being re-issued in a uniform edition (1976- ) which, sadly, is not free from error. 1.2 Stories My Enemy's Enemy (London: Victor Gollancz, 1962; New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1963). (Contains 'My Enemy's Enemy' previously published in Encounter, 1955 and in Winter's Tales I (London: Macmillan, 1955); 'Court of Inquiry', Spectator, 1956; 'Moral Fibre', Esquire, 1958; 'Interesting Things', Pick of Today's Short Stories 7 (London: Putnam, 1956); 'All the Blood Within Me', Spectator, 1962; 'Something Strange', Spectator, 1960, Pick of Today's Short Stories 12 (London: Putnam, 1961) and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1961.) Penguin Modern Stories II (with others) (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972). (Contains 'Too Much Trouble'.) Dear Illusion (London: Covent Garden Press, 1972). The Darkwater Hall Mystery (Edinburgh: Tragara Press, 1978). Collected Short Stories (London: Hutchinson, 1980). (Contains, in addition to stories specified above - but omitting 'Interesting Things' - 'The 2003 Claret', first published in The Compleat Imbiber, vol. 2 (London: Putnam, 1958); 'The Friends of Plonk', Town, 1964; 'Hemingway in Space', Punch, 1960; 'Who or What Was It?', Playboy, 1972: 'The House on the Headland', The Times, 1979; 'Mason's Life', Sunday Times, 1972; 'To See the Sun' is first published here.) 'Investing in Futures - A Story', in Cyril Ray (ed.) The New Compleat Imbiber (London: 1986). Collected Short Stories was re-issued in 1987, as above, with the addition of 'Investing in Futures' and 'Affairs of Death'. A Kingsley Amis Checklist 245 1.3 Verse Bright November (London: Fortune Press, 1947). A Frame of Mind (Reading, School of Art: University of Reading, 1953). Kingsley Amis: No. 22, The Fantasy Poets (Oxford: Fantasy Press, 1954). A Case of Samples: Poems 1946-1956 (London: Victor Gollancz, 1956; New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1957). The Evans Country (Oxford: Fantasy Press, 1962). Penguin Modern Poets 2 (with Dom Moraes and Peter Porter) (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1962). A Look Round the Estate: Poems 1957-1967 (London: Jonathan Cape, 1967; New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1968). Wasted, Kipling at Bateman's (London: Poem-of-the-Month Club, 1973). Collected Poems 1944-1979 (London: Hutchinson, 1980; New York: Viking Press, 1981). 1.4 Recordings Kingsley Amis Reading His Own Poems, Listen, 1962. Poems (with Thomas Blackburn), Jupiter, 1962. 1.5 Plays Radio play Touch and Go, BBC 1957. Adaptations (not by Amis) Something Strange, 1962. The Riverside Villas Murder, 1976. Television plays A Question About Hell, 1964. The Importance of Being Hairy, 1971. See What You've Done (Softly, Softly series), 1974. Dr Watson and the Darkwater Hall Mystery (from his own story), 1974. We Are All Guilty (Against the Crowd series), 1975. 246 Kingsley Amis: An English Moralist 1.6 Criticism New Maps of Hell: A Survey of Science Fiction (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1960; London: Victor Gollancz, 1961). The James Bond Dossier (London: Jonathan Cape, and New York: New American Library, 1965). What Became of Jane Austen? and Other Questions (London: Jonathan Cape, 1970; New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971). Kipling and His World (London: Thames and Hudson, 1975; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976). 'Afterword' to Samuel Butler's Erewhon (New York: New American Library (Signet), 1960. Amis has been a prolific reviewer of other people's books. Rabinovitz*, pub. 1967, takes more than eight pages to list essays, articles and reviews written between the mid-1950s and mid-1960s, many of them fiction reviews for the Spectator. Though no longer an (almost-)weekly reviewer, Amis continues to comment on new work, most frequently in the Observer. *(see Checklist 2.1) 1.7 Anthologies edited/introduced by Amis Oxford Poetry 1949 (with James Michie) (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1949). Oscar Wilde: Poems and Essays (London: Collins, 1956). Spectrum: A Science Fiction Anthology (with Robert Conquest), 5 vols. (London: Victor Gollancz, 1961-5; New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1962-7). G. K. Chesterton: Selected Stories (London: Faber and Faber, 1972). Tennyson (Poet to Poet series) (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973). Harold's Years: Impressions from the New Statesman and Spectator (London: Quartet, 1977). The New Oxford Book of Light Verse (London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1978). The Faber Popular Reciter (London: Faber and Faber, 1978). The Golden Age of Science Fiction (London: Hutchinson, 1981). The Great British Songbook (with James Cochrane) (London: Pavilion/Michael Joseph, 1986). A Kingsley Amis Checklist 247 1.8 Miscellaneous writings Socialism and the Intellectuals (London: Fabian Society, 1957). Lucky Jim's Politics (London: Conservative Political Centre, 1968). Black Papers on Education (Manchester: Critical Quarterly Society, 1968-75) (d. Checklist 2.2). On Drink (London: Jonathan Cape, 1972; New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973). An Arts Policy? (London: Centre for Policy Studies, 1979). Everyday Drinking (London: Hutchinson, 1983). How's Your Glass? (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984). 1.9 Bibliography Kinsman, Clare D. and Tennenhouse, Mary Ann (eds), Contempor- ary Authors: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Authors and Their Works (Detroit: Gale, 1974). Gohn, J. B., Kingsley Amis: A Checklist (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1976). (Gohn's book supplies bibliographical details of material under the headings of 'Unpublished Mate- rials', 'Published Materials' and 'Secondary Materials' that appeared before the end of 1975. Its modest hope to 'prove a useful tool for the future Amis scholar' has been abundantly fulfilled in my own case, and I am happy to record my gratitude to it.) Salwak, D. F., Kingsley Amis: A Reference Guide (Boston: Hall, 1978). (Dr Salwak's book is indispensable as a guide to the variations in Amis's critical reputation, and has a list of American Ph.D. theses.) A collection of Arnis's verse manuscripts is held at the State University of New York, Buffalo. 2 SECONDARY SOURCES 2.1 Books significantly mentioning Amis Aitken, McIntosh, Pals son (eds), Edinburgh Studies in English and Scots (London, 1971). Bergonzi, B., The Situation of the Novel (London, 1970). 248 Kingsley Amis: An English Moralist Davie, D., Thomas Hardy and British Poetry (London and New York, 1972). Gardner, P., Kingsley Amis (Boston, 1981). Gindin, J., Postwar British Fiction: New Accents and Attitudes (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962). Hewison, R., In Anger: Culture in the Cold War 1945-60 (London, 1981). Karl, F. R., The Contemporary English Novel: a Reader's Guide (New York, 1962). Lodge, D., Language of Fiction (London, 1966 and 1984). McEwan, N., The Survival of the Novel (London, 1981). Morrison, B., The Movement (Oxford, 1980). O'Connor, W. V., The New University Wits and the End of Modernism (Carbondale: University of Illinois Press, 1963). Rabinovitz, R., The Reaction against Experiment in the English Novel, 1950-1960 (New York and London, 1967). Swinden, P., The English Novel of History and Society, 1940-1980 (London, 1984). 2.2 Articles Some uncollected articles by Kingsley Amis 'The Curious Elf: a Note on Rhyme in Keats', Essays in Criticism', 1951. 'Ulster Bull: the Case of W. R. Rodgers', Essays in Criticism, 1953. 'Communication and the Victorian Poet', Essays in Criticism, 1954. 'New Novels and Some Observations', Spectator, 19 November 1954. 'Is the Travel Book Dead?', Spectator, 17 June 1955. 'At the Jazz Band Ball', Spectator, 28 September 1956. 'The New Sound', Observer, 30 December 1956. 'Anglo-Saxon Platitudes',