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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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Kingsley Amis, David Lodge (Introduction) 3.75. 29,882 ratings2,271 reviews. 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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Jim terá sorte o bastante para alcançar seus objetivos? Clássico do absurdo, LUCKY JIM é considerado por Christopher Hitchens (cujo ensaio é reproduzido como posfácio da edição) o mais divertido livro da segunda metade do século XX. Esta é a primeira tradução brasileira do aclamado romance de Amis.
14 de ago. de 2010 · None of his novels look particularly kindly upon his fellow man, but Lucky Jim, his first, is driven by a particularly epic disdain for the idiocies, pedantries, mindless rules and unpleasant...
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Dixon reveals the news about the job offer from Christine's uncle, Gore-Urquhart, and asks to return to London with Christine. As they walk down the street, they run into the Welch family, whom Dixon salutes with an explosive laugh of contempt. A short summary of Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim.
Lucky Jim, published in 1954, is a comedic novel by English writer Kingsley Amis that satirizes the academic world of post-war England. The protagonist, Jim Dixon, is an unwilling lecturer at a provincial university.
