Том Шарп

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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 modern society by his medieval upbringing, Lockhart must resort to drastic tactics in his attempt to return to Flawse House. Faced with the horrors of suburbia, he must either terrorise, blackmail and ...

The landscape is flawless, the trees majestic, the flora and the fauna are right and proper, the whole is picturesquely typical of rural England at its best. Sir Giles, an MP of few principles and curius tastes, plots to destroy all this by building a moorway smack through it, to line his own pocket and at the same time to dispose of his wife, the capacious Lady Maude. Sir Giles recruits to his si...

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 Master must start all over again. Meanwhile the Colleg's monstrous debts refuse to go away, and a sinister American media mogul seems determined to make a television documentary on the premises, destr...

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 upon the scene: Kommandant van Heerden, whose secret longing for the heart of an English gentleman leads to the most memorbale transplant operation yet recorded; Luitenant Vekramp of the Security Branch, ever active in the pursuit of Communist ...

Henry Wilt, Tom Sharpe's beleaguered hero, returns again for another hilarious dose of quickfire farce. 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 and outside of work. The demands of his snobbish wife Eva, and the stupendous ...

"Explosively funny, fiendishly inventive". Sunday Times "What clinches the novel's success is Mr Sharpe's brilliant comic style. His phrasing, his timing, and his extraordinarily deft handling of the minutiae of comic incidents make for real hilarity". Times Literary Supplement "Splendidly funny". New Statesman

Мистер Генри Уилт оказывается ввергнутым в пучину международного терроризма. К нему в дом вторгается жуткая альтернативная реальность - и терпит крах, столкнувшись с изощренной и парадоксальной системой мышления скромного преподавателя колледжа для рабочей молодежи. "Альтернатива Уилта" (1979), второй роман эпического фарса Тома Шарпа о Генри Уилте, - в новом переводе.

"Tom Sharpe is in top form…outrageously funny…Left-wing academics, right-wing capitalists, true-blue country gentry, workers, peasants, police and lawyers - all take custard pies full in the face in this boisterous knockabout farce". The Listener "A novelist who has broken out of the pack, established a wholly distinctive style…such a keen eye for the ridiculous and marvellous ability to punctu...

Все началось с дружеской вечеринки, куда попал скромный преподаватель колледжа Генри Уилт. Избежав атаки любвеобильной хозяйки дома, Генри попадает в плен к надувной резиновой кукле из секс-шопа и никак не может вырваться из ее объятий. И вот… семейная жизнь Уилта трещит по швам, а тупоголовый инспектор Флинт подозревает его в тяжком преступлении… Цикл о Генри Уилте – самая большая удача в творчес...