Lucky Jim
Publication details: United Kingdom; Penguin Books; 2000Description: 272 Pages; PaperbackISBN:- 9780141182599
- 823.91
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 | Karachi Classics | 823.91 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | PKLC019845 | ||
Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 | Lahore Classics | 823.91 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | PKLC019618 |
Kingsley Amis's witty campus novel, Lucky Jim is a comedy that skewers the hypocrisies and vanities of 1950s academic life. This Penguin Modern Classics edition contains an introduction by David Lodge. Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons - as long as Jim can stave off the unwelcome advances of fellow lecturer Margaret, survive a madrigal-singing weekend at Professor Welch's, deliver a lecture on 'Merrie England' and resist Christine, the hopelessly desirable girlfriend of Welch's awful son Bertrand. Inspired by Amis's friend, the poet Philip Larkin, Jim Dixon is a timeless comic character, adrift in a hopelessly gauche and pretentious world.
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