| Front | Lucky Jim |
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| Back | The first Novel Kingsley Amis 1954 Jim Dixon An Assistant lecturer in history Jim's hapless misadventures Farcical comedy and satirical humour at the Expence of 'phoniness' and pretention Lucky Jim is a novel by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1954 by Victor Gollancz. It was Amis's first novel and won the 1955 Somerset Maugham Award for fiction. The novel follows the exploits of the eponymous James (Jim) Dixon, a reluctant lecturer at an unnamed provincial English university. |
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