by Kingsley Amis · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141182599
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«Lucky Jim» is the comic novel by Kingsley Amis, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (272 pages, in English).
Jim Dixon has landed a post as a history lecturer at a new British university, but his future depends on surviving a weekend of madrigals at Professor Welch's house, delivering a lecture on «Merrie England», and resisting the temptation of Christine, the girlfriend of Welch's insufferable son.
The novel was originally published in 1954. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by David Lodge. The work won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1955.
It is an ideal read for fans of British comedy and academic satire.
Sir Kingsley William Amis was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, short stories, radio and television scripts, and works of social and literary criticism. He is best known for satirical comedies such as Lucky Jim (1954), One Fat Englishman (1963), Ending Up (1974), Jake's Thing (1978) and The Old Devils (1986). His biographer Zachary Leader called Amis "the finest English comic novelist of the second half of the twentieth century." In 2008, The Times ranked him ninth on a list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. He was the father of the novelist Martin Amis. Amis was knighted in 1990.
