Lucky Jim

novel by Amis

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Lucky Jim, best-selling novel by Kingsley Amis, published in 1954. The novel features the antihero Jim Dixon, a junior faculty member at a provincial university who despises the pretensions of academic life. Dixon epitomizes a newly important social group risen from lower-middle-class and working-class backgrounds only to find the more comfortable perches still occupied by the wellborn.

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