Lucky Jim

Lucky Jim

Kingsley Amis

Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jim remains as trenchant, withering, and eloquently misanthropic as when it first scandalized readers back in 1954.

This is the story of Jim Dixon, a hapless lecturer in medieval history at a provincial university who knows better than most that “there was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.” Kingsley Amis’s scabrous debut leads the reader through a gallery of emphatically English bores, cranks, frauds, and neurotics with whom Dixon must contend in one way or another in order to hold on to his cushy academic perch and win the girl of his fancy.

Graphics design
Quentin Blake
Dimensions
18 x 11 cm
Pages
250
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd, London, 1969.
 
Latin alphabet. Paperback.
Language: English.

One copy is available

Condition:Used, good condition (visible signs of use)
Damages or inconvenience notice:
  • Slight damage to the cover
  • A message of a personal nature
  • Yellowed pages
 

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