In kingsley amiss take a girl like you, twenty year old jenny bunn is supernally beautiful and. Jenny has rented a room in the home of a middleaged couple, dick and martha thompson. It also introduces one of the rare unqualified good guys in amiss rogueridden world. Take a girl like you 1969 standish discusses jenny bunn. One of the lesserknown names on the list was patrick standish, the main male character in take a girl like you, kingsley amis s 1960 novel. Take a girl like you jenny bunn, book 1 by kingsley amis. Jenny bunn, a girl from the english north country come south to teach school in a small smug town where. He also has what is possibly the funniest line in the movie, occurring when jenny tells him that shes a virgin. Its heroine is a genuinely good girl surrounded by leering men who want to sample her virginity. Based on the 1960 novel take a girl like you by kingsley amis, it was adapted by george melly a television adaptation was broadcast in 2000. You may also like based on a novel by kingsley amis, this film follows the london arrival of jenny bunn hayley mills, the parent trap, an attractive young teacher from the country with provincial ideas about love and marriage. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app.
Watch tv series take a girl like you 1970 the best. This perceptive coming of age novel about a northern girl. It was broadcast on bbc1 in three hourlong episodes. The pickup artist by stefan beck the new criterion the. They appeared in his novel of 1960, take a girl like you, in which patrick gives.
Take a girl like you may well be kingsley amiss most ambitious reckoning with the serious. Take a girl like you is a 2000 british television comedy series adapted by andrew davies from the 1960 novel take a girl like you by kingsley amis. This perceptive coming of age novel about a northern girl who moves south, who wants to fit in and yet wants to preserve her. Take a girl like you manufactured on demand on tcm shop. This perceptive coming of age novel about a northern girl who moves south. Take a girl like you is a 1970 british comedy film directed by jonathan miller and starring hayley mills, oliver reed and noel harrison. And in this years the letters of kingsley amis, we can follow the gestation and reception of the 1961 novel now adapted for television. To reach it, one makes a journey similar to that described by the narrator of girl, 20 when he visits sir roy vandervane. Analysis and discussion of characters in kingsley amis take a girl like you.
Take a girl like you import united kingdom import on tcm shop. This is amis s fourth novel, after lucky jim, that uncertain feeling and i like it here and it is widely regarded as one of his best. Author of lucky jim, lucky jim, take a girl like you, i like it here, one fat englishman, girl, 20, the antideath league, the green man kingsley amis open library donate. Jenny bunn, a girl from the english north country come south to teach school in a small smug town. Just then a bandaged man in his underwear staggered into the room. The nicholsons are the dedicatees of take a girl like you. Take a girl like you nyrb classics kindle edition by. May 04, 2015 the next morning, a young neighbor stopped by their house.
Documented as a personal favorite of kingsley amis, take a girl like you, originally published in 1960, is peopled with subsidiary characters, ranging from the posh and. Take a girl like hayley mills, britains professional virgin for much of her career, and so who better to play the part of jenny bunn, the new girl in town who has yet to have her cherry popped. Surprisingly long at 317 pages in the penguin paperback edition, ie this novel has the same weight and heft as a modern literary classic. The daughter of a north england hearse driver, miss bunn is prim and proper until she attends a party at. Take a girl like you is a tad different from the old letchs other works that ive read. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, short stories, radio and television scripts, and works of social and literary criticism. It also introduces one of the rare unqualified good guys in amis s rogueridden world.
Born in london, amis explored his disillusionment in novels such as that uncertain feeling 1955. A still from the 1970 film version of take a girl like you. A threepart adaptation of kingsley amiss 1960 comic novel about love and lust in 1950s britain opens with. Take a girl like you nyrb classics kindle edition by amis. Buy take a girl like you by amis, kingsley from amazons fiction books store. Take a girl like you begins with a familiar premisethe pursuit of the unexperienced by the worldlywiseand adds an ending where the conquest succeeds. Buy a cheap copy of take a girl like you book by kingsley amis. Take a girl like you ebook by kingsley amis rakuten kobo. Take a girl like you by kingsley amis and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Amiss best novel after take a girl like you was arguably ending up 1974, a black comic tale of a group of retired people failing to cope with the afflictions of. Take a girl like you by kingsley amis overdrive rakuten. This perceptive coming of age novel about a northern gir.
Buy take a girl like you penguin modern classics by amis, kingsley isbn. He was a writer, known for the further adventures of lucky jim 1967, take a girl like you 1970 and the new adventures of lucky jim 1982. The novel opens with jenny bunns arrival at her lodginghouse. Set in the 1950s, it follows the progress of twenty year old jenny bunn, as she moves from her family home in the north of england to a london suburb to teach primary school children. A threepart adaptation of kingsley amis s 1960 comic novel about love and lust in 1950s britain opens with. Take a girl like you is the story of attractive little jenny bunn, come south to teach and confront headon, the cold, cold world. The next morning, a young neighbor stopped by their house. Take a girl like you, a story of male erotic offence and. Oct 15, 2019 author of lucky jim, lucky jim, take a girl like you, i like it here, one fat englishman, girl, 20, the antideath league, the green man kingsley amis open library donate. May 25, 2014 continuing my modestly ambitious project of reading all of kingsley amis s novels inspired by zachary leaders admirable and definitive biography of amis, i have just finished take a girl like you. He was married to elizabeth jane howard and hilary ann bardwell.
Sep 02, 2016 provided to youtube by castle communications take a girl like you the foundations baby now that ive found you. Take a girl like you in its th anniversary season, pbs masterpiece theatre will certainly help to dispel its lingering reputation as a series of stodgy costumers with this sex farce based on. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction. Apr 04, 20 in kingsley amis s take a girl like you, twenty year old jenny bunn is supernally beautiful and stubbornly chaste, which is why patrick standish, an arrogant schoolmaster, wants her so much. With sienna guillory, rupert graves, robert daws, emma chambers. Watch take a girl like you episodes online season 1.
Take a girl like you by kingsley amis, paperback barnes. Sir kingsley william amis, cbe 16 april 1922 22 october 1995 was an english novelist, poet, critic and teacher. Apr 24, 2019 take a girl like you is a pleasant, silly, but enjoyable sunday matinee kind of film. Take a girl like you by kingsley amis librarything.
Take a girl like you is a 1970 english film stars oliver reed, jonathan miller, kingsley amis, george melly, stanley myers, dick bush, rex pyke, jack harris, hal e. Take a girl like you should have been a better novel than it turned out to be. Jenny bunn, a girl from the english north country come south to teach. Take a girl like you may well be kingsley amiss most ambitious reckoning with the serious subject at the heart of his work. Kingsley amis comic novel charting the progress of young teacher jenny bunn. The narrative follows the progress of twentyyearold jenny bunn, who has moved from her family home in the north of england to a small town not far from london to teach primary school children. Take a girl like you is a comic novel by kingsley amis. This perceptive coming of age novel about a northern girl who moves south, wants to fit in and yet wants to preserve her principles, challenges our. It starred sienna guillory, rupert graves, hugh bonneville, robert daws, leslie phillips, emma chambers, ian driver and deborah cornelius. Shes a young, strikingly beautiful, provincial northern woman who has moved to a london suburb to take her first teaching job. Take a girl like you import, bluray, united kingdom import, comedycontemporary, 5037899071717. Director jonathan miller, who spent most of his cinematic career either writing or directing tv movies, helmed just one theatrical movie, which was the 1970 british comedy take a girl like you based upon the 1960 novel of the same name by kingsley amis, the story concerns a young lady named jenny hayley mills who has just moved to london, england to begin her career as a school. Take a girl like you quentin blake skip to navigation.
Take a girl like you import united kingdom import on. Barely has she got out of the taxi before shes accosted by local lothario patrick oliver reed, slavering at the chops at the prospect of fresh meat. Its fair to say that in the late 1950s kingsley amis was riding high. Readers of amis can be expected to remember patrick and jenny from the past. Take a girl like you penguin modern classics ebook. Take a girl like you may well be kingsley amis s most ambitious reckoning with the serious subject at the heart of his work. This scene from the 1969 film adaptation of kingsley amis novel shows patrick standish ioliver reed discussing his problems with graham ronald lacey and julian noel harrison. Take a girl like you kingsley amis 2201 by doll house. Kingsley amis take a girl like you words pdf read online. Kingsley amis, the former angry young man, lives in a large, earlynineteenthcentury house beside a wooded common. In kingsley amis s take a girl like you, twenty year old jenny bunn is supernally beautiful and stubbornly chaste, which is why patrick standish, an arrogant schoolmaster, wants her so much.
Based on the 1960 novel take a girl like you by kingsley amis, it was adapted by george melly. Kingsley amis was born on april 16, 1922 in london, england as kingley amis. Take a girl like you is a pleasant, silly, but enjoyable sunday matinee kind of film. Watch take a girl like you episodes online season 1 2004. Take a girl like you jenny bunn, book 1 by kingsley amis book cover, description, publication history. Karl miller kingsley and the woman lrb 29 september 1988. Watch tv series take a girl like you 1970 the best site. The more i read kingsley amis, the more i like him. Jan 06, 2020 over 25 years ago, kingsley amis wrote take a girl like you, a comedy about a lusty young couple, patrick and jenny, each engaged with equal ardor in gaining an opposite goal he with getting her into bed, she with staying out of it.
The story of a provincial young woman who wants to preserve her virginity until marriage and a cynical but insecure man about ten years her senior who is both infatuated with her and also determined to get inside her pants, the book has an excellent premise around. This perceptive coming of age novel about a northern girl who moves south, wants to fit in and yet wants to preserve her principles, challenges our assumptions about the battle of the sexes and classes in. The narrative follows the progress of twentyyearold jenny bunn, who has moved from her family home. Start reading take a girl like you nyrb classics on your kindle in under a minute. Documented as a personal favorite of kingsley amis, take a girl like you, originally published in 1960, is peopled with subsidiary characters, ranging from the posh and pedantic to the proletarian and pessimistic.
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