Tom Sharpe

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March 30, 1928 in London, The United Kingdom

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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), English class snobbery (Ancestral Vices, Porterh...more

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Average rating: 3.75 · 7,805 ratings · 412 reviews · 49 distinct works

	Wilt 3.87 avg rating — 1,610 ratings — published 1976 — 35 editions	My rating:
	Riotous Assembly 3.97 avg rating — 660 ratings — published 1973 — 22 editions	My rating:
	The Wilt Alternative (Wilt, #2) 3.71 avg rating — 615 ratings — published 1979 — 17 editions	My rating:
	Porterhouse Blue (Porterhouse Blue, #1) 3.64 avg rating — 660 ratings — published 1974 — 26 editions	My rating:
	Indecent Exposure 3.97 avg rating — 523 ratings — published 1973 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Blott on the Landscape 3.73 avg rating — 579 ratings — published 1975 — 19 editions	My rating:
	Wilt On High (Wilt, #3) 3.77 avg rating — 510 ratings — published 1985 — 18 editions	My rating:
	The Throwback 3.77 avg rating — 428 ratings — published 1983 — 18 editions	My rating:
	Ancestral Vices 3.68 avg rating — 406 ratings — published 1980 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Vintage Stuff 3.64 avg rating — 326 ratings — published 1982 — 14 editions	My rating:

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Wilt (5 books)
by Tom Sharpe

3.76 avg rating — 3,123 ratings

Porterhouse Blue (2 books)
by Tom Sharpe

3.55 avg rating — 860 ratings

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“The man who said the pen was mightier than the sword ought to have tried reading "The Mill on the Floss" to Motor Mechanics.”
― Tom Sharpe, Wilt

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“Do go on,' he said. 'There's nothing I enjoy more than listening to a highly trained intelligence leapfrogging common sense and coming to the wrong conclusions. It gives me renewed faith in parliamentary democracy.”
― Tom Sharpe, Wilt On High

tags: humor , intelligence

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Wilt, Tom Sharpe

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