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Kingsley Amis has 151 books on Goodreads with 135140 ratings. Kingsley Amis’s most popular book is Lucky Jim.
2 de out. de 2012 · Lucky Jim is extremely funny. Everyone was much amused, and since it is also a kind of male Cinderella or Ugly Duckling story, it left its readers goo-humored and glowing.” —Edmund Wilson, The New Yorker, 1956 “I was recommended [Kinglsey Amis’ Lucky Jim] when I
Lucky Jim is a 1954 work of comedic fiction by Kingsley Amis. It chronicles various exploits by the eponymous protagonist, James (“Jim”) Dixon, a disillusioned lecturer in medieval history at an unnamed lesser-known university in the English Midlands. When Dixon feels that his position at the university is threatened, he strives to assert ...
Symbols Margaret's green Paisley dress and quasi-velvet shoes; Professor Welch's fishing hat and Bertrand's beret. Foreshadowing Margaret's cageyness about the details of her suicide attempt; Caton's refusal to give Jim a definite answer about a publication date for Jim's article. A list of important facts about Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim ...
2 de out. de 2012 · Lucky Jim (New York Review Books Classics) - Kindle edition by Amis, Kingsley, Gessen, Keith. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Lucky Jim (New York Review Books Classics).
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Paperback – 1 Nov. 2008. by Kingsley Amis (Author), David Lodge (Introduction) 3.9 2,944 ratings. See all formats and editions. 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 survive a madrigal-singing weekend at ...
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by Kingsley Amis, introduction by Keith Gessen. 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 in 1954. This is the story of Jim Dixon, a hapless lecturer in medieval history at a provincial university ...
