- College teachers, Single men, Fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
Amis’s debut novel, published in 1954, is a satire on academia. The protagonist is a bored and disinterested history lecturer at a provincial university, trapped in a joyless and sexless relationship with a depressive fellow lecturer. The book immediately elevated Amis to fame as one of the leading writers of his generation.
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- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Kingsley Amis
- First published
- September 3, 1998
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Books on Tape Inc., Books On Tape, Michael Joseph
- Editions
- 68
- Language
- English, heb, cze, Swedish
- ISBN
- 9780736601955
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“"They made a silly mistake, though," the Professor of History said, and his smile, as Dixon watched, gradually sank beneath the surface of his features at the memory.”
KingsleyAmis, the author of *Lucky Jim*, was born in the south of London in 1922. His first interest in literature was in the field of poetry. At the age of eleven he was writing verse, at the university he was one of the editors of *Oxford Poetry 1949*, and his own poetry has been published in two books: *A Frame of Mind* and *A Case of Samples*. His name is often to be seen in British newspapers and magazines as the writer of articles and reviews. Lucky Jim, published in 1954, was Amis's first novel. It was something so different, so fresh and so brilliantly clever that the critics welcomed it with excitement. Kingsley Amis is a university lecturer in English. In Lucky Jim he takes us into
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