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Title: The Penquin Class contains many serious errors
Review: Do not buy the Penguin version of Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis. It contains many errors introduced by the new publisher. One ofthe biggest occurs on p. 250. Four lines down is a paragraph where Jim is thinking of which suburb he should live in whenhe moves to London. In the 6th line down, he thinks to himself "Belgrave Square, Wapping, Chelsea. No, not Chelsea."The error is here and it is huge. The correct version should read: "Belgrave Square, Wapping, Bloomsbury. No, not Bloomsbury."What makes this error so huge is that Bloomsbury was the favorite enclave of London's writers. So, Jim is refusing to livewhere the writers live, and hence Amis, the author, through Jim's thinking, is taking a swipe at all the pretentious authorsin London. This is a very funny line for those keenly interested in Lucky Jim. It is also a bit of an in-joke. This is all destroyedby Penguin's version which uses Chelsea. There are many other errors, too. Don't buy this edition.
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