Book description
Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern
Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were
considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All
represent their time and helped define their generation, while today
each is considered a landmark work of storytelling.
Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim was published in 1954, and is a
hilarious satire of British university life. Jim Dixon is bored by his
job as a medieval history lecturer. His days are only improved by
pulling faces behind the backs of his superiors as he tries
desperately to survive provincial bourgeois society, an unbearable
'girlfriend' and petty humiliation at the hands of Professor Welch.
Lucky Jim is one of the most famous and influential of
all British post-War novels.
Kingsley Amis was born in 1922 in south London. He wrote over twenty
novels, beginning with
Lucky Jim
in 1954 - which established itself as an immediate classic. He also
wrote prolifically on politics, films, poetry, education, science
fiction and drink - an abiding interest. He was knighted in 1990, and
died in 1995.
