lucky jim kingsley amis 1965 penguin edn

This best-selling comic novel by Kingsley Amis, one of the "Angry Young Men" who came to prominence in the early 1950s, describes the frustrations met by Jim Dixon, a lecturer at a provincial British university, in his academic and private life. Approaching middle age and as yet unpublished, untenured, and unattached, Dixon needs most of all to impress Professor Welch, his department head, but is more concerned with winning over Christine, the beautiful girlfriend of Welch's obnoxious son, Bertrand. Immensely popular when first published in 1955, LUCKY JIM influenced an entire school of academic novelists, from David Lodge to A.N. Wilson.