![]() ![]() ![]() In Lucky Jim, the protagonist is a young man who is fighting to keep a job he. Jim Dixon is bored by his job as a medieval history lecturer. Most of our images are sourced automatically, so the book cover shown might be different to the edition we have in stock. Lucky Jim is one of the first novels by award winning writer, Kingsley Amis. Kingsley Amis s Lucky Jim was published in 1954, and is a hilarious satire of British university life. This is a used book in fair condition, meaning a worn but fully readable copy it may be scuffed, have rips or marks, contain highlighted passages and annotations, or be missing its dust jacket. If he can just deliver a lecture on 'Merrie England', a moderately successful career surely awaits him. ![]() His life is full of things he could happily do without- the tedious and ridiculous Professor Welch, a neurotic and unstable girlfriend, Margaret, burnt sheets, medieval recorder music and over-enthusiastic students. ![]() He felt bad.'Jix Dixon has a terrible job at a second-rate university. During the night, too, he'd somehow been on a cross-country run and then been expertly beaten up by secret police. 'His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as a mausoleum. ![]()
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