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We bring together in this volume the five hilarious adventures of the unspeakable Henry Wilt, Tom Sharpe's most popular character. Henry Wilt is gifted with an immense talent for getting tangled up in the most gruesome messes without realizing it, and with no less admirable ability to escape from them.

Henry has been passed over for a promotion yet again at his university job. Things are no better at home with his wife, Eva. Wilt can do nothing about his job, but he realizes he can do something about his wife - as each day passes, his fantasies grow more murderous and more real.

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Tom Sharpe was born in 1928 and educated at Lancing College and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He did his national service in the Marines before moving to South Africa in 1951, where he did social work before teaching in Natal. He had a photographic studio in Pietermaritzburg from 1957 until 1961, and from 1963 to 1972 he was a lecturer in History at the Cambridge College of Arts and Technology.He is the author of sixteen bestselling novels, inc...

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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 thousand miles over the water, and especially not two rotund Americans with more money than sense.

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, Maurern und Fleischern zu tun, denen er die hohe Literatur näher bringen soll. Daheim erwartet ihn seine Frau Eva, sexuell unbefriedigt und schnell für alle möglichen modischen Ersatzbeschäftigungen zu begeistern: Judo, Töpfern, Meditation. Schließl...

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New jacket reissues of these comic fiction classics.

Another hilarious dose of quickfire farce, featuring Sharpe's beleaguered hero Wilt. Wilt takes on a summer job teaching the gun-toting idiot son of a lusty local aristocrat. 'The funniest novelist writing today' "The Times

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Voor de miljoenen Tom Sharpe-fans over de hele wereld behoren de boeken waarin de veelgeplaagde leraar Henry Wilt de hoofdrol speelt tot hun favoriet. Bij het woord hoofdrol zou Wilt trouwens zelf veel vraagtekens plaatsen. Hij lijdt onder de verwerpelijke streken van zijn vierling Penelope, Samantha, Josephine en Emmeline en de eisen van zijn snobistische echtgenote Eva, die hem opzadelt met een vervelend zomerbaantje. Maar, naarmate de zomer...