Lucky Jim - Softcover

Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons. As long as Jim can survive a madrigal-singing weekend at Professor Welch's, deliver a lecture on 'Merrie England' and resist Christine, the hopelessly desirable girlfriend of Welch's awful son Bertrand.

Kingsley Amis was born in London in 1922, and educated at City of London School and St John's College, Oxford. At one time he was a university lecturer, and a jazz enthusiast. After the publication of LUCKY JIM, now a modern classic, he wrote over twenty novels, including the Booker prize winning THE OLD DEVILS (1986). He also wrote about politics, education, language, films, and restaurants. Amis received a knighthood in 1990, and died in 1995.