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   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 academic and romantic tribulations of the eponymous James (Jim) Dixon, a reluctant history lecturer at an unnamed provincial English university.

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3. www.sparknotes.com › lit › luckyjimLucky Jim: Full Book Summary | SparkNotes

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   Lucky Jim is a novel by Kingsley Amis about Jim Dixon, a junior lecturer in history who faces various troubles and temptations in his personal and professional life. The novel follows his adventures from his first year at a provincial university to his job offer in London, where he meets Christine, a woman who challenges his cynicism and hypocrisy.

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   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.

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   • 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.

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   • 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 academic and romantic tribulations of the eponymous James (Jim) Dixon, a reluctant history lecturer at an unnamed provincial English university.

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   Who is 'Lucky Jim'?

   • The book introduces us to an unworldly and hapless junior lecturer in his first year at a provincial university (the eponymous 'Lucky Jim', aka Jim Dixon) who rails against the pomposity of the university's old world order.

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   What genre is Lucky Jim?

   • Lucky Jim belongs to the genre of fiction known as the picaresque novel—with its episodic lurchings, its opportunistic hero, and its emphasis on satirizing various English character types. Although resourceful, the picaro is by tradition simple, a naïf who reveals, by his simplicity, the tattered moral fabric of a society based on pretension.

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   Jun 19, 2020 · Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim was published in 1954, and is a hilarious satire of British university life. Jim Dixon is bored by his job as a medieval history lecturer.

7. www.sparknotes.com › lit › luckyjimLucky Jim: Study Guide | SparkNotes

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   Learn about the comedic novel by Kingsley Amis that satirizes post-war British academia and society. Find book summary, character analysis, quotes, and more.

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9. www.britannica.com › topic › Lucky-Jim-novel-by-AmisLucky Jim | British Satire, Comedy, 1954 | Britannica

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   Lucky Jim, best-selling novel by Kingsley Amis, published in 1954. The novel features the antihero Jim Dixon, a junior faculty member at a provincial university who despises the pretensions of academic life.

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    Complete summary of Kingsley Amis' Lucky Jim. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Lucky Jim.