Kingsley Amis's witty campus novel,Lucky Jim is a comedy that skewers the hypocrisies and vanities of 1950s academic life. This Penguin Modern Classics edition contains an introduction by David Lodge.
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.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141182599Number of pages: 272Weight: 202 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 16 mm
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'A flawless comic novel...I loved it then,as I do now. It has always made me laugh out loud.'- Helen Dunmore,The Times
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