Humoristisk skildring af en småborgerlig engelsk lærer, som kommer ud for en række barokke situationer på grund af sin kones hang til at følge tidens strømninger
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Cette série suit les mésaventures d'un professeur plutôt peu fortuné dont l'existence banale est constamment perturbée par des événements inattendus. Confronté à des élèves désengagés et à une vie personnelle étouffante, il se retrouve involontairement mêlé à des situations dramatiques, notamment des enquêtes policières et des accusations de meurtre. Pourtant, avec un mélange de résilience passive, d'imagination débordante et d'un humour sec unique, il navigue à travers ces circonstances chaotiques. Ce sont des récits humoristiques remplis de comédie situationnelle, de rebondissements inattendus et du charme distinctif de la satire britannique.
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Quelle famille !
- 320pages
- 12 heures de lecture
Il est d'une méchanceté inouïe et déteste la terre entière à commencer par sa propre famille ! Quel motif haineux peut donc bien pousser Lord Putrefact, l'un des plus riches industriels d'Angleterre et l'un des plus originaux, à inviter en sa demeure le jeune et virulent professeur Walden Yapp, connu pour ses opinions extrémistes ? On retrouvera dans ce scénario désopilant ce concentré d'Angleterre farfelue, modèle de ces productions type Monty Python que nous envions tant à nos voisins d'outre-Manche et dont Tom Sharpe s'est fait le plus valeureux des hérauts.
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A humourous novel in which a further series of mishaps await Henry Wilt at Fenland Technical College. Things soon get out of hand when he is suspected of drug dealing and his wife decides to perk up his home brew with herbal stimulants. From the author of GRANTCHESTER GRIND and WILT.
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Wilt In Nowhere
- 320pages
- 12 heures de lecture
When his endlessly capricious wife Eva receives plane tickets for the family to visit Auntie Joan and Uncle Wally in Atlanta, Wilt knows only one thing - that nothing could entice him to fly three thousand miles over the water, and especially not two rotund Americans with more money than sense. What better way to escape and find equilibrium then to embark on a walking tour? Just Wilt, the countryside, and an ill-judged bottle of whiskey...Meanwhile, Eva finds her plans to inherit Joan and Wally's fortune slipping away faster than her sanity, thanks to a combination of sinister teenage quadruplets with foul mouths, and her unexpected role as lead suspect in a drug-trafficking plot.Outrageous, darkly comic, and packed with calamity on top of calamity, Tom Sharpe's latest episode of Wilt's misadventures is a razor-sharp farce that will delight fans both old and new.
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Stuck in a job he doesn't want - but can't afford to lose - as nominal Head of the Communications Department at Fenland University, Wilt is still subject to the whims of The Powers That Be, both in and outside of work. The demands of his snobbish wife Eva, and the stupendous school fees of his despicable quadruplet daughters, cause him the biggest headaches... apart from the hangovers, that is. When Eva signs him up for a summer job, teaching the gun-toting idiot son of a lusty local aristocrat, Wilt is not amused. But, as circumstances unravel and the summer goes on, Wilt sees that the situation could be put to his financial advantage, as well as giving Eva some headaches of her own. With Tom Sharpe's famous dark humour in full evidence, and an explosive plot which takes its readers to places they never realised they wanted to visit, The Wilt Inheritance is another instant classic from the British master of farce.
