Paperback. Pub Date: 2010 Pages: 288 Publisher: Penguin; Re-issue Penguin Decades ing you the novels that helped shape modern itain When they were published some were bestsellers. Some were considered scandalous and others were simply Misunderstood . All represent their time and helped define their generation. while today each is considered a landmark work of storytelling. Kingsley Amis' Lucky Jim was published in 1954. and is a hilarious satire of itish university life. Jim Dixon is bored by his job as a medieval history lecturer. His days are only improved by pulling faces behind the backs of his superiors as he tries desperately to survive provincial bourgeois society. an unbearable 'girlfriend' and petty humiliation at the hands of Professor Welch. Lucky Jim is one of the most famous and influential of all itish post-War novels.