Lucky Jim (Penguin Modern Classics) (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Lucky Jim (Penguin Modern Classics) Thursday, August 6 2009.

• Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons. As long as Jim can survive a madrigal-singing weekend at Professor Welch's, deliver a lecture on 'Merrie England' and resist Christine, the hopelessly desirable girlfriend of Welch's awful son Bertrand.

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Lucky Jim (Penguin Modern Classics) Friday, July 17 2009.

• 'They made a silly mistake, though,' the Professor of History said, and his smile, as Dixon watched, gradually sank beneath the surface of his features at the memory.