Amis wrote poetry, television plays, short stories, science fiction, and even a James Bond novel. Kingsley Amis’s writing career covers five decades, but Lucky Jim remains the most significant accomplishment of the author. It is also judged as the best comic novel of the twentieth century by Toby Young. Lucky Jim was included in the TIME 100 Best Englsih language novels from 1923 to 2005.Īccording to Christopher Hitchens, Lucky Jim is the funniest book of the second half of the twentieth century.
It is said that Larkin had contributed a lot to structure the novel. In the initial part of the story, there is the mention of ‘old song.’ ‘Oh, lucky Jim, How I envy him.’ The style of writing is quite wide-ranging and finely modulated. James Dixon was a reluctant medieval history lecturer at an anonymous provincial English university. Jim, the titular character and protagonist of the novel, follows the exploits of the eponymous James Dixon, called Jim. It was the first novel of the author and it won the Somerset Maugham Award for fiction. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis was first published in 1954. All rights reserved Chapter One: Introduction
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