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Lucky Jim is a novel by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1954 by Victor Gollancz. It was Amis's first novel and won the 1955 Somerset Maugham Award for fiction. The novel follows the academic and romantic tribulations of the eponymous James (Jim) Dixon, a reluctant history lecturer at an unnamed provincial English university.
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- Kingsley Amis
- January 1954
3.75. 29,952 ratings2,287 reviews. Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jim remains as trenchant, withering, and eloquently misanthropic as when it first scandalized readers back in 1954. This is the story of Jim Dixon, a hapless lecturer in medieval history at a provincial university who ...
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Lucky Jim, best-selling novel by Kingsley Amis, published in 1954. The novel features the antihero Jim Dixon, a junior faculty member at a provincial university who despises the pretensions of academic life. Dixon epitomizes a newly important social group risen from lower-middle-class and.
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Overview. Lucky Jim, published in 1954, is a comedic novel by English writer Kingsley Amis that satirizes the academic world of post-war England. The protagonist, Jim Dixon, is an unwilling lecturer at a provincial university.
Aug 14, 2010 · Olivia Laing. Sat 14 Aug 2010 19.05 EDT. H as there even been a writer so choked with bile as Kingsley Amis? None of his novels look particularly kindly upon his fellow man, but Lucky Jim, his...
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Paperback Ebook. Quantity. Add to cart. Add to Wishlist. Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jim remains as trenchant, withering, and eloquently misanthropic as when it first scandalized readers in 1954.
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The importance of luck in Lucky Jim is signaled first by the title, and then by the repetition of the concept throughout the text. The novel charts both the bad and good luck of Jim Dixon, but Jim's feelings towards luck become more elaborate as the story proceeds.
