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... Lucky Jim and the many comic novels stemming from it provide a good example ; and there is the instructive case of Malcolm Bradbury's Eating People is Wrong , which is an English university novel cast very much in the mould of Lucky Jim ...
... Lucky Jim and the many comic novels stemming from it provide a good example ; and there is the instructive case of Malcolm Bradbury's Eating People is Wrong , which is an English university novel cast very much in the mould of Lucky Jim ...
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... Lucky Jim and a founding father of the Angry Young Men . But it is over fifteen years since Lucky Jim came out , and in that time Amis has published seven more novels , a collection of short stories and two books of poems , together ...
... Lucky Jim and a founding father of the Angry Young Men . But it is over fifteen years since Lucky Jim came out , and in that time Amis has published seven more novels , a collection of short stories and two books of poems , together ...
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... Lucky Jim is at worst a crude and childish farce , and at best no more than a faded relic of the taste of the early fifties . Nevertheless Lucky Jim remains , for me , a comic masterpiece , the funniest English first novel since Anthony ...
... Lucky Jim is at worst a crude and childish farce , and at best no more than a faded relic of the taste of the early fifties . Nevertheless Lucky Jim remains , for me , a comic masterpiece , the funniest English first novel since Anthony ...
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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