'Lucky' Jim Pleass is the last surviving member of Glamorgan's County Championship winning team of 1948, the first time the Welsh team won the highest honour in county cricket.
Jim Dixon is bored by his job as a medieval history lecturer.
First published in 1954, this book is a hilarious satire of British university life.
A hilarious satire about college life and high class manners, this is a classic of postwar English literature.
A hilarious satire about college life and high class manners, this is a classic of postwar English literature.
'Lucky Jim' is the tale of university lecturer Jim Dixon who has to navigate the stumbling blocks of life at a red brick university, as he attempts to climb the social ladder to a moderately successful future.
Jim Dixon se encuentra en una situaciǹ¤ delicada.
Lucky Jim is Jim Hart's memoir, the story of how he survived a violent childhood home, found incredible words inside him, created a love that was both so right and so wrong, and finally found the strength to be his true self.
First published in 1954, this book is a hilarious satire of British university life.
Lucky Jim is the memoir of writer Jim Hart, the story of how he survived a violent childhood home, created a love that was both so right and so wrong, overcame obsessive dependencies, and finally found the strength to be his true self.
James Dixon, a young university teacher, risks his career when he becomes romantically involved with the family of eccentric, but influential Professor Welch.
This is the story of Jim Dixon, a hapless lecturer in medieval history at a provincial university who knows better than most that "there was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.
Jim has fallen into a job at one of the new red brick universities.