Kingsley Amis\' witty campus novel, "Lucky Jim" is a comedy that skewers the hypocrisies and vanities of 1950s academic life.
A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons - as long as Jim can stave off the unwelcome advances of fellow lecturer Margaret, survive a madrigal-singing weekend at Professor Wel.
Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain\'s new red brick universities.
This "Penguin Modern Classics" edition contains an introduction by David Lodge.
Kingsley Amis\' witty campus novel, "Lucky Jim" is a comedy that skewers the hypocrisies and vanities of 1950s academic life