Disillusionment in Kingsley Amis’s works

During his thirty-five-years career, Kingsley Amis amassed a wide-ranging body of work that rightly earned him a place among the most entertaining of contemporary writers. In four decades Amis authored twenty two novels, six volumes of poetry, two collections of short stories, thirteen volumes of non-fiction, one biography, and hundreds of essays and reviews. Not all of Amis’s works have met with critics’ praise, nor do they deserve it. But it is obvious from these and other assessments that Amis earned himself a constant place among the most distinguished British writers of the twentieth century.