Title: Tom Sharpe. 6 novels Author(s): Tom Sharpe Pages: 1 Publisher: Publication date: Language: English Format: LIT, PDF, TXT ISBN-10: ISBN-13: Description: List:
Sharpe, Tom - Indecent Exposure.lit
Sharpe, Tom - Riotous Assembly.lit
Sharpe, Tom - The Great Pursuit.lit
Sharpe, Tom - The Throwback.lit
Sharpe, Tom - Wilt.lit
Sharpe, Tom - 1975 - Blott On The Landscape.txt
Sharpe, Tom - Indecent Exposure.pdf
Sharpe, Tom - The Great Pursuit.pdf
Sharpe, Tom - The Throwback.rtf
Sharpe, Tom - Wilt.txt
Tom Sharpe (born March 30, 1928) is an English satirical author, born in London and educated at Lancing College and at Pembroke College, Cambridge. After National Service he moved to South Africa in 1951, doing social work and teaching in Natal, until deported in 1961.
His work in South Africa inspired the novels Riotous Assembly and Indecent Exposure. From 1963 until 1972 he was a History lecturer at the Cambridge College of Arts and Technology, which inspired his "Wilt" series Wilt, The Wilt Alternative, Wilt on High and Wilt in Nowhere.
His novels feature bitter and outrageous satire of the apartheid regime (Riotous Assembly and its sequel Indecent Exposure), dumbed-down education (the Wilt series), English class snobbery (Ancestral Vices, Porterhouse Blue), the literary world (The Great Pursuit), political extremists of all stripes, political correctness, bureaucracy and stupidity in general. Characters may indulge in bizarre sexual practices, and coarser characters use very graphic and/or profane language in dialogue. Sharpe often parodies the language and style of specific authors commonly associated with the social group held up for ridicule. Sharpe's bestselling books have been translated into many languages.
Wilt is a comedic novel by the author Tom Sharpe, first published by Secker and Warburg in 1976. Later editions were published by Pan Books, and Overlook TP.
Plot introduction
The novel's title refers to its main character, Henry Wilt. Wilt is a demoralized and professionally under-rated assistant lecturer who teaches literature to uninterested construction apprentices at a community college in the south of England. Years of hen-pecking and harassment by his emotionally unbalanced wife Eva leave Henry Wilt with dreams of killing her. But a string of unfortunate events start the title character on a farcical journey. Along the way he finds humiliation and chaos, which ultimately lead him to discover his own strengths and some level of dignity. And all the while he is pursued by the tenacious police inspector Flint, whose poor skills of deduction interpret Wilt's often bizarre actions as heinous crimes.
The Throwback is a novel written by Tom Sharpe.
Plot
The plot is based on the fictitious Flawse family, ancient landed gentry of Northumberland, just south of the Scottish Border. They have their own breed of hunting dog called the Flawse Hound. Lockhart Flawse is the illegitimate grandchild of a robust old man called Edwin Tyndale Flawse born in the century before last whose main aim in the very autumn years of his life is to find the father of his bastard grandchild and flog him within an inch of his life.
Blott on the Landscape is a novel written in 1975 by Tom Sharpe. It became a special 6-part television series, made by the BBC, in 1985.
Plot
The story centres around the (attempted) construction of a motorway (the M101 in the book and the M399 in the film) through the Cleane Gorge in rural South Worfordshire (a fictitious gorge in a fictitious English county). At the heart of the gorge is Handyman Hall (again, fictitious), the residence of Sir Giles Lynchwood and his wife Lady Maud Lynchwood. Sir Giles is secretly in favour of the motorway as it will mean he will get a large compensation from the demolition of the hall, which he hates. Things are further complicated by the on-going marital problems between Sir Giles and Lady Maud.
Lady Maud's family has lived in the gorge for "over 500 years" (as she likes saying throughout) and she has no plans on leaving. She also wants children, something which Sir Giles hates the thought of
Title: Tom Sharpe. 6 novels