Lucky Jim

Kingsley Amis · 1954 CE · Novel · English · Contemporary

Jim Dixon, a junior lecturer at a provincial university, is trying to keep a job he despises by staying in favor with a professor whose medieval enthusiasms bore him blind. A weekend of madrigals and a public lecture on Merrie England stand between him and dismissal, along with a neurotic colleague and the girl attached to the professor's son. The funniest faces ever pulled at authority.

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