In 1976 Tom Sharpe created Henry Wilt, one of the great antiheroes of contemporary literature, who ended up starring in the five hilarious novels collected in this volume: Wilt, The Tribulations of Wilt, Cheer Up, Wilt!, Wilt Doesn't Make It Clear and The Wilt's inheritance.
Wilt is a literature professor at a vocational training polytechnic, and his work life sucks because he has to teach real idiots and deal with no less insufferable colleagues. On the domestic front things are not going much better: his wife Eva tends to be stubborn and bossy, and over time the fearsome gifted quadruplets arrive, whose schooling in a very expensive school for smart children leads the parent down the path of bitterness. economical. And to top it off there is also Flint, the insidious police inspector who seems hell-bent on making poor Wilt's life miserable.
In these five masterpieces o...read more