num_pages: 251
description: 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.
language: English
title: Lucky Jim
titlecomplete: Lucky Jim
characters: Margaret Peel, Professor Welch, Jim Dixon, Christine Callaghan
genres: 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Comedy, Classics, British Literature, Fiction, Humor, Modern Classics
ratings_count: 29245
awards: awardedAt: -473356800000
name: Somerset Maugham Award
publisher: Penguin