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Een pas afgestudeerde jongeman krijgt in zijn eerste betrekking geen verheffend beeld van de Britse universitaire wereld.
His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as a mausoleum. During the night, too, he'd somehow been on a cross-country run and then been expertly beaten up by secret police. He felt bad'. Jix Dixon has a terrible job at a second rate university. His life is full of things he could happily do without: the tedious and ridiculous Professor Welch, a neurotic and unstable girlfriend, Margaret, burnt sheets, medieval recorder music and over-enthusiastic students. If he can just deliver a lecture on 'Merrie England', a moderately successful career surely awaits him. But without luck, life is never simple...
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Lucky jim : edited and abridged by D.K. swan. Illustrated by william burnard
A humorous novel about an amiable opportunist who finds himself, after the war, in the improbable role of an instructor in medieval history at one of Britain's new redbrick universities in a small British village.
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James Dixon, a young university teacher, risks his career when he becomes romantically involved with the family of eccentric, but influential Professor Welch.
Lucky Jim : [a novel]
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A young Englishman embarks on a humorous crusade against traditional class structures.
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Een pas afgestudeerde jongeman die op zoek is naar een plaats in de maatschappij welke hij aanvankelijk aan een provinciale Engelse universiteit meent te vinden, krijgt tenslotte zonder enige inspanning een zeer begeerde positie.
Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new redbrick universities. A moderately successful future in the History department beckons.
Humorous stories
Lucky Jim
Lucky Jim, a novel
First published in 1954, this book is a hilarious satire of British university life. It is a young man's book, in fact a book of two young men. They are not exactly angry young men, but they are extremely irritable. College friends with similar backgrounds, they graduated from both Oxford University and World War II to find themselves in an England in terminal decline. It has lost overseas possessions that had once been its pride, and the people in charge are snobs and incompetents. Worst of all, no one seems to appreciate the young men's genius: neither the women they meet not the publishers to whom they send their works. "Lucky Jim" Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of the new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons as long as Jim can keep in with eccentric Professor Welch, survive a madrigal-singing weekend, deliver a lecture on 'Merrie England' and resist Christine, the hopelessly desirable girlfriend of Welch's awful son, Bertrand. Here the reader is lead through a gallery of English bores, cranks, frauds, and neurotics with whom Jim must contend in order to hold on to his cushy academic perch and win the girl of his fancy.
Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of storytelling. 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. Lucky Jim is one of the most famous and influential of all British post-War novels.
Een pas afgestudeerde jongeman die op zoek is naar een plaats in de maatschappij, welke hij aanvankelijk aan een provinciale Engelse universiteit meent te vinden, krijgt tenslotte zonder enige inspanning een zeer begeerde positie.
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Lucky Jim ... Edited and abridged by D.K. Swan. Illustrated by William Burnard