Pre-Owned Lucky Jim 9780140186307

from poplin

Lucky Jim is perhaps the best comic novel I've ever read, and yet it also manages to have both a heart and a point. Amis tells the story of Jim Nixon, a junior lecturer at a provincial English coll...

from elliepotten

Hmmm, quite a difficult one to review, this one. It's a bumbling, amusing sort of story about a bumbling, amusing sort of fellow - the very 'old-style-British' lecturer Jim Dixon. Basic plot: Jim i...

from wandering_star

Jim Dixon is a junior history lecturer at an indifferent university. He's always taken the easy way out - he took medieval history because those papers were supposed to be easiest, and talked about...

from ctpress

A biting british satire and a most enjoyable reading. About a young academic Jim Dixon who struggles to secure a teaching position in the History Department of an university. He tries to ingratiate...

from DavidMilnes

Any book that can make you laugh aloud and want to get back to it even after some dull pages must be worth 4 stars. I wouldn't go to 5 because the characterization of some key people - the loathsom...