![]() ![]() Though Amis never meant it to be a sociological document, it was fated to be "required reading on university Sociology courses" in the United States for a while (McDermott 20). By February 1956, only a little more than two years after its initial publication, Lucky Jim was already "into its sixteenth impression, a success story rarely equaled in contemporary fiction" (Wilson 68). The same source tells of attempts made at purchasing the radio adaptation and film rights of the novel by such well-known corporations as the BBC and famed directors as Alfred Hitchcock, Sidney Bernstein, and John and Roy Boulting before the year 1954 had come to an end (101-02). It was positively reviewed by such eminent scholars as Sean O'Faolain, Walter Allen, John Betjeman, Anthony Powell, and Edmund Fuller (Keulks 102). ![]() Of course, the general response was favorable. When Lucky Jim first appeared in 1954, it received varied responses from different classes of readers and critics. ![]()
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