Lucky Jim

Kingsley Amis, Keith Gessen

eBook - 2012

One of The Guardian’s “100 Greatest Novels of All Time”An “extremely funny” satire about college life and high-class manners, hailed as one of the greatest comic novels of the 20th century—by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Old Devils (The New Yorker)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 who knows better than most that “there was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.” Amis’s scabrous debut leads the reader through a gallery of emph...atically English bores, cranks, frauds, and neurotics, with each of whom Dixon must contend in one way or another in order to hold on to his cushy academic perch and... more