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  • Published: 25 July 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141961873
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 304

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: 25 July 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141961873
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 304

About the author

Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis has been described as 'the finest English comic novelist of the second half of the twentieth century'. Born in 1922, he wrote over twenty novels, including Lucky Jim (1954), winner of the Somerset Maugham Award for fiction, The Old Devils (1986), which won the Booker Prize, and The Biographer's Moustache (1995). He also published several collections of short stories, poetry and non-fiction. Amis was awarded a CBE in 1981 and received a knighthood in 1990. He died in 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