Tom Sharpe zählte spätestens seit dem sensationellen Erfolg seines Romans «Puppenmord» zu den erfolgreichsten Autoren Englands. Seine Romane sind mittlerweile Klassiker. 1928 in England geboren, studierte Tom Sharpe in Cambridge und arbeitete als Buchhalter, Sozialarbeiter und Fotograf in Südafrika. Er verstarb im Juni 2013 in Spanien.
17 Ebooks de Tom Sharpe
Tom Sharpe: Puppenmord
Henry Wilt ist Hilfslehrer an einer Berufsschule auf dem platten Lande, beruflich und im Eheleben tritt er auf der Stelle. Der Mittdreißiger hat es seit zehn Jahren mit künftigen Gasinstallateuren, M …
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Tom Sharpe: Blott On The Landscape
The landscape is flawless, the trees majestic, the flora and the fauna are right and proper. All is picturesquely typical of rural England at its best. Sir Giles, an MP of few principles and curious …
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Tom Sharpe: Vintage Stuff
Peregrine Roderick Clyde-Brown is a bumbling, naive and savagely dim-witted teenager, who, as his name reveals, cannot possibly be exposed to the evils of a comprehensive school. However, with his pe …
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Tom Sharpe: Wilt
Henry Wilt, tied to a daft job and a domineering wife, has just been passed over for promotion yet again. Ahead of him at the Polytechnic stretch years of trying to thump literature into the heads of …
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Tom Sharpe: Wilt Alternative
Henry Wilt is no longer the victim of his own uncontrolled fantasies. As Head of a reconstituted Liberal Studies Department he has assumed power without authority at the Fenland College of Arts & Tec …
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Tom Sharpe: Wilt Inheritance
Stuck in a job he doesn’t want – but can’t afford to lose – as nominal Head of the Communications Department at Fenland University, Wilt is still subject to the whims of The Powers That Be, both in a …
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Tom Sharpe: Ancestral Vices
With his only friend a computer, Walden Yapp has lived a singular life. Professor of Demotic History at the University of Kloone, Yapp spends his days highlighting the corrupt capitalistic nature of …
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Tom Sharpe: Grantchester Grind
Though as cunning as ever, the formidable Skullion – previously head porter, now elevated to Master – is showing signs of physical frailty after his stroke. So the tricky business of appointing a new …
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Tom Sharpe: Great Pursuit
Frensic and Futtle is a small and successful literary agency. But following a successful court case by a woman who claimed to have been libeled by one of their authors, the agency rapidly loses busin …
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Tom Sharpe: Indecent Exposure
In Piemburgem, the deceptively peaceful-looking capital of Zululand, Kommandant van Heerden, Konstabel Els and Luitenant Verkramp continue to terrorise true Englishman and even truer Zulus in their r …
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Tom Sharpe: Porterhouse Blue
______________________________The ‘endlessly funny’ novel widely regarded as a classic of comic English literature Porterhouse College is world renowned for its gastronomic excellence, the arrogance …
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Tom Sharpe: Riotous Assembly
When Miss Hazelstone of Jacaranda Park kills her Zulu cook in a sensational crime passionel, the gallant members of the South African police force are soon on the scene: Kommandant van Heerden, whose …
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Tom Sharpe: Gropes
It is one of the more surprising facts about Old England that one can still find families living in the same houses their ancestors built centuries before and on land that has belonged to them since …
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Tom Sharpe: Throwback
When Lockhart Flawse is catapulted out of his upper-class and rapunzel-esque life with the curmudgeonly Flawse Senior, he must enter the world of suburbia, and marriage. Rendered an absolute twit in …
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Tom Sharpe: Wilt in Nowhere
When his endlessly capricious wife Eva receives plane tickets for the family to visit Auntie Joan and Uncle Wally in Atlanta, Wilt knows only one thing – that nothing could entice him to fly three th …
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Tom Sharpe: Wilt on High
Wilt is back – in form, and in a good deal of trouble.Henry Wilt is still teaching at the Fenland Tech, attempting to drill English into plasterers, dozing through tedious committee meetings and occa …
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Tom Sharpe: Midden
Timothy Brights doesn’t exactly live up to his name. Brought up to regard copious flows of money as his birthright, he can’t understand why the funds have been cut off, nor why friends he recruited a …
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