Title: Lucky Jim
First published: September 3, 1998
Description: Amis’s debut novel, published in 1954, is a satire on academia. The protagonist is a bored and disinterested history lecturer at a provincial university, trapped in a joyless and sexless relationship with a depressive fellow lecturer. The book immediately elevated Amis to fame as one of the leading writers of his generation.
Subjects: College teachers, Single men, Fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), College Lecturers, University Life in Fiction, College students, Large type books, Fiction in English, English literature
Places: England
Time periods: 1950's