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An edition of Lucky Jim (1953)

Lucky Jim

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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.

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Publisher
Michael Joseph, Penguin UK
Language
English
Pages
320

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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

Times

1950's

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Lucky Jim
2010, Michael Joseph, Penguin UK
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Lucky Jim
September 3, 1998, Penguin Books Ltd
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Lucky Jim.
1992, Penguin
in English
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Lucky Jim
1992, Penguin
in English
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Lucky Jim
1976, Penguin Books
Paperback in English
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Lucky Jim: a novel
1963, Viking Press
in English
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Lucky Jim: a novel.
1954, Doubleday
in English - [1st ed.]

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Edition Notes

Originally published: London: Gollancz, 1954.

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London
Series
Penguin decades

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823.914
Library of Congress
PR, PR6001.M6

The Physical Object

Pagination
pages cm.
Number of pages
320

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL28275845M
Internet Archive
luckyjim0000amis
ISBN 10
0141046716
ISBN 13
9780141046716
OCLC/WorldCat
477255495

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Work 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.

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