This article is about the 1954 novel. For the film adaptation, see Lucky Jim (1957 film). For the 1909 film, see Lucky Jim (1909 film).
Lucky Jim
First US edition
Author
Kingsley Amis
Cover artist
Edward Gorey
Country
England
Language
English
Publisher
Doubleday (US) Victor Gollancz (UK)
Publication date
January 1954
Pages
256
ISBN
0-14-018630-1
OCLC
30438025
LC Class
54-5356
Lucky Jim is a novel by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1954 by Victor Gollancz. It was Amis's first novel and won the 1955 Somerset Maugham Award for fiction. The novel follows the academic and romantic tribulations of the eponymous James (Jim) Dixon, a reluctant history lecturer at an unnamed provincial English university.
Amis 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.[1]Lucky Jim is dedicated to Larkin, who helped to inspire the main character and contributed significantly to the structure of the novel.[2][3]
Time magazine included Lucky Jim in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.[4][5]
^Letters to Monica, p. 447 Faber 2010
^Rossen, Janice. 1998. "Philip Larkin and Lucky Jim". Journal of Modern Literature 22 (1). Indiana University Press: 147–64.
^"Hitchens". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on 10 November 2011. Retrieved 7 January 2012.
^"All Time 100 Novels". Time. 16 October 2005. Archived from the original on 19 October 2005. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
^"Time list". 16 October 2005. Retrieved 6 January 2012.
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