Complete Stories: Kingsley Amis

The short stories of Kingsley Amis - the great master of post-war comic prose - are dark, playful, moving, surprising and extremely funny. This definitive collection gathers all Amis`s short fiction in a single volume for the first time and encompasses five decades of storytelling. In `The 2003 Claret`, written in 1958, a time machine is invented for the weighty task of sending a man to 2010 to discover what the booze will taste like. In `Boris and the Colonel` a Cambridge spy is unearthed in the sleepy English countryside with the help of a plucky horse, while In `Mason`s Life` two men meet inside their respective dreams. The collection spans many genres, offering ingenious alternative histories, mystery and horror, satirical reflections and a devilishly funny attacks. Amis`s stories reveal the scope of his imagination and the warmth beneath his acerbic humour, and they all share the unmistakable style and wit of one of Britain`s best loved writers.