:ItisanovelbyKingsleyAmis, ’sfirstnovel, andwontheSomersetMaughamAwardforfiction.Setsometimearound1950, LuckyJimfollowstheexploitsoftheeponymousJames (Jim) Dixon, areluctantmedievalhistorylectureratanunnamedprovincialEnglishuniversity(basedinpartontheUniversityofLeicester).Thetoneisoftentruculentandplain-spoken, -matterofthetime: , thenovelisalsoanabsorbinglovestory, andneverlosesitsgriponthepainfulandcomplexrealitiesofhumanrelationships.
ForFun
WorkstoRead
, aFoundling:ItisoftenknownsimplyasTomJones , .Firstpublishedon28February1749inLondon, TomJonesisamongtheearliestEnglishproseworksdescribableasanovel, andistheearliestnovelmentionedbyW.SomersetMaughaminhis1948book “GreatNovelistsandTheirNovels”amongthetenbestnovelsoftheworld.
: ItisanovelbyMarkTwain, , theworkisamongthefirstinmajorAmericanliteraturetobewrittenthroughoutinvernacularEnglish, characterizedbylocalcolorregionalism.
MoviestoSee
(1957):Itisa1957BritishcomedyfilmdirectedbyJohnBoultingandstarringIanCarmichael, Terry-ThomasandHughGriffith.Itisanadaptationofthe1954novelLuckyJimbyKingsleyAmis.
(1959):Itisa1959BritishfilmstarringRichardBurton, ’splayofthesamenameaboutalovetriangleinvolvinganintelligentbutdisaffectedyoungman (JimmyPorter), hisupper-middle-class, impassivewife (Alison), andhersnootybestfriend (HelenaCharles).Cliff, anamiableWelshlodger, attemptstokeepthepeace.
SongtoEnjoy
LuckyJim
bytheGunClub
therainhasarrivedatlast
forwhichwehadwaited
thehawkershavepackeduptheirstands
nothingtobetraded
thesovietsbesidethequay
