Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
$18.00
Condition Used paperback with faint pencil writing on the front cover, light cover marks, minor rubbing to the edges and corners, and age-toned pages. Read full condition
Used paperback with faint pencil writing on the front cover, light cover marks, minor rubbing to the edges and corners, and age-toned pages.
The book pictured is the copy you’ll receive.
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About this book
Junior lecturer Jim Dixon struggles to keep his university job while negotiating academic pretension, awkward romances and disastrous social obligations. Kingsley Amis turns Dixon's frustrations into a sharp comic portrait of class and ambition in post-war Britain. This 1961 first Penguin edition features Nicolas Bentley's illustrated orange-and-white cover.
- Author: Kingsley Amis
- Publisher: Penguin Books
- Year: 1961
- Edition / printing: First Penguin edition (1961); originally published by Gollancz in 1954
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 251
- Language: English
Condition: Used paperback with faint pencil writing on the front cover, light cover marks, minor rubbing to the edges and corners, and age-toned pages.
Book details
- Title
- Lucky Jim
- Authors
- Kingsley Amis
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Published
- 1961
- Language
- English
- Binding
- Paperback
- Edition
- First Penguin edition (1961); originally published by Gollancz in 1954
- Subjects
- FICTION, VINTAGE BOOKS, CLASSICS, HUMOUR, SATIRE
- Page count
- 251
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