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30438025. LC Class. 54-5356. 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 ...
As Amis's first published novel, Lucky Jim set the tone for Amis's lifelong preoccupation with the role of higher learning in Britain. Lucky Jim was also the first in a long line of British campus satires that shifted the object of ridicule from the students to the faculty. Kingsley Amis was born on April 16, 1922.
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 working-class backgrounds only to find the more ...
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Oct 1, 2012 · Thirty Years of Re-Reading Lucky Jim. Joseph M. Schuster October 1, 2012 | 11 min read. 1. The first time I read Kingsley Amis’s classic campus novel, Lucky Jim, I did it to impress a girl. I was in my early 20s, living in Seattle during my first year after finishing college, and had just started seeing a graduate student in English.
Summary. Lucky Jim belongs to the genre of fiction known as the picaresque novel—with its episodic lurchings, its opportunistic hero, and its emphasis on satirizing various English character ...
Jul 30, 2020 · An Oaf’s Magnificat: On Kingsley Amis and “Lucky Jim”. In 1954, “Lucky Jim” was a new planet: When Kingsley Amis wrote it, English satirical fiction had been for a third of a century a decidedly mandarin and highbrow business. Unlike his predecessors, Amis depicts representatives of the lower orders and the previously inaccessible ...
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May 25, 2004 · But, lucky me, I had acquired Amis's already famous novel a few days earlier. After I read 20 pages the rain and cold and flu ceased to matter, pushed from consciousness by this amazing comedy. Lying in bed, I laughed aloud, again and again. Last weekend, reading Lucky Jim for the third time, I found myself laughing once more.
