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Lucky jim goodreads6/11/2023 ![]() In his attempt to be awarded a permanent post he tries to maintain a good relationship with his absent-minded head of department, Professor Welch. He has made an unsure start and, towards the end of the academic year, is concerned about losing his probationary position in the department. Jim Dixon is a lecturer in medieval history at a red brick university in the English Midlands. Time magazine included Lucky Jim in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. Lucky Jim is dedicated to Larkin, who helped to inspire the main character and contributed significantly to the structure of the novel. ![]() The novel follows the exploits of the eponymous James (Jim) Dixon, a reluctant lecturer at an unnamed provincial English university.Īmis arrived at Dixon's surname from 12 Dixon Drive, Leicester, the address of Philip Larkin from 1948 to 1950, while he was a librarian at the university there. ![]() It was Amis's first novel and won the 1955 Somerset Maugham Award for fiction. Lucky Jim is a novel by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1954 by Victor Gollancz. ![]()
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