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Lucky Jim

Kingsley Amis


  • Penguin Modern Classics
  • Penguin Modern Classics
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.

ISBN 9780141182599 | EN | PB
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Publisher Penguin Modern Classics
ISBN 9780141182599
Publication date May 2000
Edition Paperback
Dimensions 198 x 129 mm
Pages 272
Language(s) English ed.
Exhibition Penguin Modern Classics
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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. Inspired by Amis's friend, the poet Philip Larkin, Jim Dixon is a timeless comic character, adrift in a hopelessly gauche and pretentious world, in a witty campus novel that skewers the hypocrisies and vanities of 1950s academic life.

Lucky Jim

Lucky Jim

€14.95