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Overview

Kingsley Amis has written a marvelously funny novel describing the attempts of England's postwar generation to break from that country's traditional class structure. When it appeared in England, LUCKY JIM provoked a heated controversy in which everyone took sides. Even W. Somerset Maugham reviewed the book, happily with great favor: "Mr. Kingsley Amis is so talented, his observations so keen, that you cannot fail to be convinced that the young men he so brilliantly describes truly represent the classes with which his novel is concerned."
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Overview

Kingsley Amis has written a marvelously funny novel describing the attempts of England's postwar generation to break from that country's traditional class structure. When it appeared in England, LUCKY JIM provoked a heated controversy in which everyone took sides. Even W. Somerset Maugham reviewed the book, happily with great favor: "Mr. Kingsley Amis is so talented, his observations so keen, that you cannot fail to be convinced that the young men he so brilliantly describes truly represent the classes with which his novel is concerned."

What People Are Saying

Anthony Burgess
"Dixon make little dents in these smug fabric of hypocritical, humbugging, classdown British society...Amos cought the mood of post-war restiveness in a book which, does socially significant, wise, and still is extremely funny."
David Lodge
"A classic comic novel, a seminal campus novel, and a novel which seized and expressed to the mood who came of age in the 1950s. But there is more to it than that...it's university setting functions primarily as the epitome of a stuffy, provincial bourgoise world into which the hero is promoted by education, and against his values and codes he rebels, at first inwardly and at last outwardly."

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780140186307
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
  • Publication date: 9/28/1993
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 272
  • Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Series
  • Product dimensions: 5.00 (w) x 7.70 (h) x 0.50 (d)

Meet the Author

Kingsley Amis (1922–1995) was a popular and prolific British novelist, poet, and critic, widely regarded as one of the greatest satirical writers of the twentieth century. He won an English scholarship to St. John’s College, Oxford, where he began a lifelong friendship with fellow student Philip Larkin. Following army service in World War II, he completed his degree and joined the faculty at the University College of Swansea in Wales. Lucky Jim, his first novel, appeared in 1954 to great acclaim and won a Somerset Maugham Award; from that point on he would publish roughly a book a year. Amis received the Booker Prize for his novel The Old Devils (also available from NYRB Classics) in 1986 and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1990.

Keith Gessen is a Russian-born American novelist, translator, activist, and journalist. He co-founded n+1 magazine, based in Brooklyn, in 2004. His debut novel All the Sad Young Literary Men was published in 2008 by The Viking Press, and he has translated from Russian Svetlana Alexievich's Voices from Chernobyl, an oral history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and Ludmilla Petrushevskaya's There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby with Anna Summers. In 2010 he edited and introduced Diary of a Very Bad Year: Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager, and in 2011 became involved in the Occupy Wall Street movement and co-edited the OCCUPY! Gazette. His journalistic writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The London Review of Books, The Atlantic, and New York magazine. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 5, 2009

    Good characters and plot; a chore to read

    My buddies and I read this book for our book group. We are all educated and pretty well-read and were looking forward to a well-written comedy (as advertised). We all agreed that the book was very difficult to get through. The plot was original for its time, and the character development was thorough. The readability, however, was nonexistent. The author's monotony stifled any potential enjoyment I might have had. It was a chore to read. By the time I was halfway through this short book, I was already counting the pages until the end. The others in the group agreed with the sentiment. It seems, however, we are in the minority of those who reviewed this book, so perhaps it is best to take our opinion with a grain of salt.

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  • Posted May 30, 2009

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    A Good Laugh

    This book, Lucky Jim, is about a loser, a man who is constantly finding himself making all the social mistakes he desperately wants to avoid. Jim is a new college professor on probation who wants to be made permanent while at the same time finds himself bored with the work and loathing his boss. Even as Jim attempts to make a good impression on his boss, he finds himself making stupid mistakes that nearly guarantee he will not be offered a permanent job. At the same time, Jim falls in love with the gorgeous young girlfriend of his boss's son. It is a situation that leaves the reader both cringing every time Jim does something stupid and cheering him along, hoping he will walk away with both the girl and the job.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 1, 2006

    Funny and Powerful

    Funnier than Wodehouse.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 9, 2004

    Funny, offbeat, humourous look at England and English academic life

    This humourous tale features English professor, schoolmaster, Jim Dixon; whose travels through academia, and love, are often, hilarious. With lively characters, Kingsley Amis, author of Take A Girl Like You, and the Green Man, paints a portrait of English life and love that can be interesting, to say the least, for our hero Jim. Christine, the love he seeks, is also an interesting character, his friend and sometimes confidant, Margaret, are drawn with an interesting touch. A lighthearted read. Of course, the British expressions might throw one off, but do not detract too much. Worth a look.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 22, 2004

    One of the funniest books ever

    This is the hilarious story of Jim Dixon, an unhappy college lecturer who dreams of escaping his job. For anyone who has ever felt 'stuck' in a job, Jim Dixon is your hero. But most of all, the book is amazing for it's constant stream of laugh-out-loud observations.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 2, 2004

    Deliciously wonderful

    I love a book that I can lie down and roll around in, so to speak, and 'Lucky Jim' is just that. Amis' descriptions of people and things (Dixon's hangover, his violent and childish fantasies, Bertrand's eyes, etc.) are so unique and delightful that I was often laughing out loud while marvelling at his literary dexterity. Dixon's faces are often better when they're only named, not described - the Martian Invader face, the Sex Life in Ancient Rome face... The wit of this book is biting and Dixon's pain and helpless anger is palpable as he struggles through fusty academia, the arty weekend and the business of Margaret. I savored it, much as I savored 'Cold Comfort Farm.' I highly recommend 'Lucky Jim' to anyone with a keen sense of humor and irony.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 2, 2000

    It's Hilarious

    I first encountered Kingsley Amis because his study of science fiction, 'New Maps of Hell,' was on a 1961 Harvard reading period list. Though I read little fiction, I bought 'Lucky Jim' because I'd been impressed by that study. The novel is the only book that has ever made me laugh aloud. I've re-read it many times since: it is so hilarious I still laugh aloud when Amis describes Lucky Jim's 'faces,' his voices, and -- especially -- his frantic effort to obscure evidence of the destruction his cigarette did to bedclothes.

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