Lucky Jim
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New York : New York Review Books, [2012].
ISBN
9781590175750, 1590175751
Lexile measure
930L
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Published
New York : New York Review Books, [2012].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xx, 264 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
ISBN
9781590175750, 1590175751
Lexile measure
930

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Originally published 1953.
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First published in 1954, this book is a hilarious satire of British university life. It is a young man's book, in fact a book of two young men. They are not exactly angry young men, but they are extremely irritable. College friends with similar backgrounds, they graduated from both Oxford University and World War II to find themselves in an England in terminal decline. It has lost overseas possessions that had once been its pride, and the people in charge are snobs and incompetents. Worst of all, no one seems to appreciate the young men's genius: neither the women they meet nor the publishers to whom they send their works. "Lucky Jim" Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of the new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons as long as Jim can keep in with eccentric Professor Welch, survive a madrigal-singing weekend, deliver a lecture on 'Merrie England' and resist Christine, the hopelessly desirable girlfriend of Welch's awful son, Bertrand. Here the reader is lead through a gallery of English bores, cranks, frauds, and neurotics with whom Jim must contend in order to hold on to his cushy academic perch and win the girl of his fancy.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Amis, K. (2012). Lucky Jim . New York Review Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Amis, Kingsley. 2012. Lucky Jim. New York Review Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Amis, Kingsley. Lucky Jim New York Review Books, 2012.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Amis, Kingsley. Lucky Jim New York Review Books, 2012.

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