Lucky Jim (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.) - Softcover

Lodge, David; Amis, Kingsley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140186301 ISBN 13: 9780140186307

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1992

Synopsis

In his send-up of the academic world, the author poked fun at the British way of life, and gave post-war fiction a new and enduring figure to laugh at.

About this title

Review:

A brilliant and preposterously funny book (Guardian)

It has always made me laugh out loud . . . a flawless comic novel' (Helen Dunmore The Times)

A seminal campus novel (David Lodge)

From the Back Cover:

The 1950s was the decade of post-war glamour, Barbie dolls, Pop Art and the Cold War. Britain celebrated the coronation of Elizabeth II and welcomed the Angry Young Men. The teenager was invented, rayguns were the toy of the moment, and Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley changed the face of modern culture forever.

The publication of Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim in 1954 was a landmark moment in British post-War fiction, with its anti-hero Jim Dixon and its hilarious satire on the British educational establishment. Jim is bored by his job as a medieval history lecturer. His days are only improved by pulling faces behind the backs of his superiors as he tries desperately to survive provincial bourgeois society, an unbearable 'girlfriend' and petty humiliation at the hands of Professor Welch.

With a new introduction by David Nicholls

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0140186301
• ISBN 13: 9780140186307
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272