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Lucky Jim
  • ISBN: 9780241956847
  • Pages: 272
  • Publisher: Penguin
  • Binding: Paperback

Lucky Jim

Kingsley Amis
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Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain’s new red brick universities.

A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons – as long as Jim can stave off the unwelcome advances of fellow lecturer Margaret, survive a madrigal-singing weekend at Professor Welch’s, deliver a lecture on ‘Merrie England’ and resist Christine, the hopelessly desirable girlfriend of Welch’s awful son Bertrand.



Academic Angst

In one sense Kingsley Amis’s Lucky Jim (1954) is very much a book of its time; but in another sense it is timeless. When I came to reread it recently, I feared it might not have worn well. It was,...

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