num_pages: 251
description: Jim has fallen into a job at one of the new red brick universities. A moderately successful future beckons as long as Jim can survive a madrigal-singing weekend, deliver a lecture on "merrie England" and resist Christine, the girlfriend of Professor Welch's son, Bertrand.
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