Tom Sharpe: 8 books

Par l'un des plus grands humoristes contemporains, quatre romans délirants dans la grande tradition des satiristes anglais Par l'un des plus grands humoristes contemporains, quatre romans délirants dans la grande tradition des satiristes anglais. Porterhouse (1984), Panique à Porterhouse...

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 relentless search for a perfect South Africa. Kommandant van Heerden, that great Anglophile,...

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 the upper-classes, and his nights feeding Doris his computer the information he has gathered So...

Porterhouse College is world renowned for its gastronomic excellence, the arrogance of its Fellows, its academic mediocrity and the social cache it confers on the athletic sons of country families. Sir Godber Evans, ex-Cabinet Minister and the new Master, is determined to change all this. Spurred...

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 College's monstrous debts refuse to go away, and a...

Hilarante, déjantée et délicieusement loufoque, la nouvelle comédie du maître de l'humour british et le cinquième volet des aventures de l'inénarrable Wilt, expert en catastrophes en tout genre. L'heure des vacances sonne enfin pour le professeur Henry Wilt. Adieu étudiants idiots et...

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 & Technology and the fantasies he now confronts are those of political bigots and reactionary bureaucrats...

Dans le Northumberland, depuis des générations, les dames Grope font régner la terreur autour d'elles. Signes distinctifs : un physique ingrat, une nature antipathique et des pulsions castratrices inversement proportionnelles à leur volonté de se reproduire. Qu'à cela ne tienne ! Chez les Grope,...