Main Series #1648. Penguin reprint, published 1964.
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. A moderately successful future 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.
Condition grading: Good Minus. Minor damage to bottom of spine. Price sticker remains to rear cover. Foxing to both covers. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
Main Series #1648. Penguin reprint, published 1964.
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. A moderately successful future 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.
Condition grading: Good Minus. Minor damage to bottom of spine. Price sticker remains to rear cover. Foxing to both covers. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
