Lucky Jim
By: Kingsley Amis
Series: Penguin decades
Publisher: Michael Joseph; Penguin UK
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780141046716
Subjects: College teachers; Fiction
Description: Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of storytelling. Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim was published in 1954, and is a hilarious satire of British university life. Jim Dixon is bored by his job as a medieval history lecturer. His days are only improved by pulling faces behind the backs of his superiors as he tries desperately to survive provincial bourgeois society, an unbearable 'girlfriend' and petty humiliation at the hands of Professor Welch. Lucky Jim is one of the most famous and influential of all British post-War novels.
Notes: Originally published: London: Gollancz, 1954.