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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.
Sir Kingsley William Amis CBE (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, short stories, radio and television scripts, and works of social and literary criticism .
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"What slightly spoils this diatribe, however, is that to prepare for it I went back to Kingsley Amis’s novels and enjoyed myself more than was convenient for my purposes. Jake’s Thing , for instance, famously rancid with misogyny, turns out, on re-reading, to be surprisingly tender in parts, and intensely moving on the humiliations of ...
Reginald Ashley Caton (1897–1971) was an English publisher. He appears as a literary character, especially in novels by Kingsley Amis.. In 1924, he founded the Fortune Press in London, specialising in gay erotica.
The Golden Age of Science Fiction is an anthology of science fiction short stories all originally published between 1949 and 1962. The stories were selected and introduced by Kingsley Amis (1922-1995), who also wrote an Editor's Note and a 21-page Introduction.
Robert Markham is a pseudonym used by author Kingsley Amis to publish Colonel Sun in March 1968. The book was the first continuation James Bond novel following the death of Bond's creator, Ian Fleming .
Kingsley Amis: Lucky Jim: 1954 Kingsley Amis: The Anti-Death League: 1966 James Baldwin: Another Country: 1962 J. G. Ballard: The Unlimited Dream Company: 1979 John Barth: Giles Goat-Boy: 1966 Saul Bellow: The Victim: 1947 Saul Bellow: Humboldt's Gift: 1975 Elizabeth Bowen: The Heat of the Day: 1949 Malcolm Bradbury: The History Man: 1975 John ...