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  • Published: 17 December 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241454114
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download

The Anti-Death League





Amis's story of sinister military plans, double agents and triple bluffs, new to Penguin Modern Classics

In this surreal comedy of soldiers and spies, Lieutenant James Churchill and his colleagues find themselves questioning their purpose. Are they for death or against it? These men of action will travel between the barracks, the lunatic asylum and the house of an aristocratic nymphomaniac in search of answers. For while few know the awful truth about Operation Apollo, the mission they are being trained for, fewer still understand the motives of the powerful psychiatrist Dr Best, who thinks he is surrounded by repressed homosexuals, and none know the identity of the secret agent among them. When the Anti-Death League is founded they are at last offered the chance to rebel and perhaps escape ...

  • Published: 17 December 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241454114
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download

About the author

Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis was born in south London in 1922 and was educated at the City of London School and St John's College, Oxford. After the publication of Lucky Jim in 1954, Kingsley Amis wrote over twenty novels, including The Alteration, winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, The Old Devils, winner of the Booker Prize in 1986, and The Biographer's Moustache, which was to be his last book. He also wrote on politics, education, language, films, television, restaurants and drink. Kingsley Amis was awarded the CBE in 1981 and received a knighthood in 1990. He died in October 1995.

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Praise for The Anti-Death League

To have said so much about the human condition with such lightness of touch ... is an extraordinary achievement

Sunday Telegraph

Amis amazes at every turn

The Times