Tom Sharpe
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born
March 30, 1928
gender
male
place of birth
London, The United Kingdom
genre
Literature & Fiction
about this author
Tom Sharpe is an English satirical author, born in London and educated at Lancing College and at Pembroke College, Cambridge. After National Service he moved to South Africa in 1951, doing social work and teaching in Natal, until deported in 1961.
His work in South Africa inspired the novels Riotous Assembly and Indecent Exposure. From 1963 until 1972 he was a History lecturer at the Cambridge College of Arts and Technology, which inspired his "Wilt" series Wilt, The Wilt Alternative, Wilt on High and Wilt in Nowhere.
His novels feature bitter and outrageous satire of the apartheid regime (Riotous Assembly and its sequel Indecent Exposure), "dumbed-" or watered-down education (the Wilt series), Engl...more
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Wilt by Tom Sharpe avg rating 3.96 — 280 ratings — published 1976 29 editions |
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Riotous Assembly by Tom Sharpe avg rating 4.02 — 135 ratings — published 1973 16 editions |
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Porterhouse Blue by Tom Sharpe avg rating 3.73 — 131 ratings — published 1974 19 editions |
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Indecent Exposure by Tom Sharpe avg rating 3.91 — 119 ratings — published 1973 7 editions |
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The Wilt Alternative (Wilt, #2) by Tom Sharpe avg rating 3.68 — 119 ratings — published 1979 13 editions |
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Blott on the Landscape by Tom Sharpe avg rating 3.89 — 105 ratings — published 1975 16 editions |
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Wilt On High (Wilt, #3) by Tom Sharpe avg rating 3.76 — 106 ratings — published 1986 13 editions |
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The Throwback by Tom Sharpe avg rating 3.88 — 92 ratings — published 1978 19 editions |
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Ancestral Vices by Tom Sharpe avg rating 3.77 — 82 ratings — published 1980 8 editions |
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The Great Pursuit by Tom Sharpe avg rating 3.58 — 72 ratings — published 1977 10 editions |
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