![]() ![]() Dixon wants to keep up a good relationship and image with his colleagues and receive a permanent post. He has just recently been hired, and due to a number of perceived social missteps, he fears that the end of the year might be the end of his probationary position in the history department. The novel begins at the end of an academic year at Dixon’s red brick university in England. The novel was listed in the publication TIME 100 Best English-Language Novels from 1923 to 2005, and has been critically lauded for being one of the funniest books ever published in the English language. ![]() When Dixon feels that his position at the university is threatened, he strives to assert his value, stumbling comedically through different social blunders. It chronicles various exploits by the eponymous protagonist, James (“Jim”) Dixon, a disillusioned lecturer in medieval history at an unnamed lesser-known university in the English Midlands. Lucky Jim is a 1954 work of comedic fiction by Kingsley Amis. ![]()
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