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Lucky Jim

Lucky Jim

Lucky Jim is a novel by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1954 by Victor Gollancz. It was Amis's first novel and won the 1955 Somerset Maugham Award for fiction. The novel follows the exploits of the eponymous James Dixon, a reluctant lecturer at an unnamed provincial English university.


“If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.”

Kingsley Amis book Lucky Jim

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