KingsleyAmis, the author of Lucky Jim, was born in the south of London in 1922. His first interest in literature was in the field of poetry. At the age of eleven he was writing verse, at the university he was one of the editors of Oxford Poetry 1949, and his own poetry has been published in two books: A Frame of Mind and A Case of Samples. His name is often to be seen in British newspapers and magazines as the writer of articles and reviews.
Lucky Jim, published in 1954, was Amis's first novel. It was something so different, so fresh and so brilliantly clever that the critics welcomed it with excitement.
Kingsley Amis is a university lecturer in English. In Lucky Jim he takes us into a world he knows well; it is set in a university college ' somewhere in England', but you need not have seen a British university to enjoy this book.
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Lucky Jim
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Lucky Jim: a novel
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I Like it Here
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Girl, 20
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The Green Man
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The Anti-Death League
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One fat Englishman
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The King's English
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One fat Englishman: a novel.
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New maps of hell: a survey of science fiction.
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That Uncertain Feeling
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The Anti-Death League: a novel
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That uncertain feeling: a novel
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The Riverside Villas murder
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I like it here
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Ending up
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I want it now
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My enemy's enemy
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The folks that live on the hill
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The old devils
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The Russian girl
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Russian hide and seek: a melodrama
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Russian Hide and Seek
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Memoirs
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Girl, 20
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The Golden Age of Science Fiction
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Everyday Drinking
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Difficulties With Girls
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Jake's Thing
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Stanley and the women
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A case of samples
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The Riverside Villas murder
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My enemy's enemy
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The Green Man
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The crime of the century
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Collected poems, 1944-1979
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I Like It Here
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How's Your Glass?
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I want it now
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Take a girl like you
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The Alteration
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The Russian girl
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New maps of hell
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The James Bond dossier
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The crime of the century
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Ending up
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Rudyard Kipling and his world
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Stanley and the women
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The alteration
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Jake's Thing (Vintage Blue)
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Jake's thing
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On drink
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Mr. Barrett's Secret
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Bright November
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The biographer's moustache
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Stanley and the Women
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Take a girl like you [Book]
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Correspondence
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The Egyptologists
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Colonel Sun
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You Can't Do Both
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How's your glass?: a quizzical look at drinks and drinking
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That uncertain feeling
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A case of samples: poems 1946-1956
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Old Devils
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Lucky Jim
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The Egyptologists
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Socialism and the intellectuals
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The Amis Anthology
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Green Man
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The James Bond dossier
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Kingsley Amis, Dom Moraes [and] Peter Porter
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A Kingsley Amis omnibus: Jake's thing ; Stanley and the women ; The old devils.
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The Amis collection
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I like it here
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Lucky Jim's politics
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The Riverside Villas murder
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Spectrum
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The Ant-Death League
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Take a girl like you
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Sur La Fin
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Take a girl like you
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Rudyard Kipling and his world
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The Anti-Death League, a novel
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Spectrum V: a science fiction anthology
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An arts policy?
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Un Anglais bien en chair
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The Egyptologists
1 edition - first published in 1965 -
New maps of hell
1 edition - first published in 1960 -
Spectrum
1 edition - first published in 1989 -
Spectrum: a science fiction anthology
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That uncertain feeling
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Socialism and the intellectuals
1 edition - first published in 1957 -
The Evans Country
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Colonel Sun; a James Bond adventure
1 edition - first published in 1968 -
Conversations with Kingsley Amis
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L' univers de la science-fiction
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One Fat Englishman
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We are all guilty
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The Evans Country
1 edition - first published in 1962
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