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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.
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 knows better than most that “there ...
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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.
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Lucky Jim is a novel by Kingsley Amis about Jim Dixon, a junior lecturer in history who faces various troubles and temptations in his personal and professional life. The novel follows his adventures from his first year at a provincial university to his job offer in London, where he meets Christine, a woman who challenges his cynicism and hypocrisy.
Lucky Jim: Directed by John Boulting. With John Welsh, Ronald Cardew, Hugh Griffith, Kenneth Griffith. Jim Dixon struggles with university work, Professor Welch's boring behavior, and his neurotic friend Margaret Peel.
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Learn about the comedic novel by Kingsley Amis that satirizes post-war British academia and society. Find book summary, character analysis, quotes, and more.
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Lucky Jim is a classic of postwar English literature, a hilarious satire of academic and social conventions. It follows Jim Dixon, a lecturer in medieval history, as he struggles to survive and win the girl of his fancy.
