![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If he can just deliver a lecture on 'Merrie England', a moderately successful career surely. His life is full of things he could happily do without: the tedious and ridiculous Professor Welch, a neurotic and unstable girlfriend, Margaret, burnt sheets, medieval recorder music and over-enthusiastic students. He felt bad.' Jix Dixon has a terrible job at a second-rate university. 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. Jim Dixon is bored by his job as a medieval history lecturer. He is best known for his satirical works, this novel included. Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim was published in 1954, and is a hilarious satire of British university life. ![]() During the night, too, he'd somehow been on a cross-country run and then been expertly beaten up by secret police. Kingsley Amis was an English novelist and teacher. 'His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as a mausoleum. If he can just deliver a lecture on Merrie England, a moderately successful career surely awaits him. His life is full of things he could happily do without. Jix Dixon has a terrible job at a second-rate university. Kingsley Amis (Penguin Essentials) Mass Market Paperback. One of the most famous British satirical novels of the post-War period Kingsley Amis Lucky Jim, tells the story of Jim Dixon, a man of little drive and ambition who has essentially, fallen into a job in the History department of an unnamed British University and his struggle to hold onto his position, solidify his reputation with Welch. ![]()
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