Wilt: The wildly funny classic from the master of British satire (Wilt Series 1)
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Meet Henry Wilt.
Professionally overlooked. Demoralised at home. Passed over for promotion yet again.
At work, he faces yet more years of trying to force literature into the heads of students who'd rather be anywhere else. At home, his irrepressible wife Eva throws herself into one obsession after another, while Wilt's patience wears thinner by the day.
But if he can do nothing about his job, perhaps he can do something about his wife.
As each day passes, his fantasies grow more murderous and more real . . .
Tom Sharpe's wildly funny classic is a brilliantly outrageous tale of frustration, farce and misunderstanding, and one of the greatest comic novels of the twentieth century.
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About the author
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, including Porterhouse Blue and Blott on the Landscape, which were serialised on television, and Wilt, which was made into a film. In 1986 he was awarded the XXIIIème Grand Prix de l'Humour Noir Xavier Forneret, and in 2010 he was awarded the inaugural BBK La Risa de Bilbao Prize. Tom Sharpe died in June 2013 at his home in northern Spain.
