Green Man, The

novel by Amis

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The Green Man is a novel by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1969. It is categorized as a ghost story, a genre that encompasses tales about ghosts or imaginative narratives. While ghost stories appear across various literary forms and cultures, Amis's novel is noted as an example where such tales form the main focus of the work. Kingsley Amis, a prolific writer known for his novels, poetry, and criticism, created a comic figure in his debut novel Lucky Jim and continued to explore different themes in his subsequent works, including The Green Man.12

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Kingsley Amis
…among his later novels were The Green Man (1969), Jake’s Thing (1978), and The Old Devils (1986). As a poet, Amis was a representative member of a group sometimes called “The Movement,” whose poems began appearing in 1956 in the anthology New Lines. Poets belonging to this school wrote understated…
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…among his later novels were The Green Man (1969), Jake’s Thing (1978), and The Old Devils (1986). As a poet, Amis was a representative member of a group sometimes called “The Movement,” whose poems began appearing in 1956 in the anthology New Lines. Poets belonging to this school wrote understated…
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