Indecent Exposure / Porterhouse Blue / The Great Pursuit / Blott On The Landscape by Tom Sharpe
Indecent Exposure.
Once against the setting is Piemburgem, the deceptively peaceful-looking capital of Zululand, where Kommandant van Heerden, Konstabel Els and Luitenant Verkramp continue to terrorize true Englishmen and even truer Zulus in their relentless search for a perfect South Africa. While that great Anglophile, Kommandant van Heerden, gropes his way towards attaining true "Englishness" in the company of the eccentric Dornford Yates Club, Luitenant Verkramp, whose hatred of all things English is surpassed only by his fear of sex. This sets in motion an experiment in mass chastity, with the help of the redoubtable lady psychiatrist Dr. von Blimenstein, which has remarkable and quite unforeseen results. Once more, Konstabel Els, homicidal to the last, saves the day - or what's left of it - in one of the most savage hunts ever chronicled in fiction.
The Great Pursuit.
When snuff-taking, port-drinking, and financially strapped literary agent Frensic receives a manuscript with "bestseller" written all over it, he begins to salivate over the potentially huge profits. The one catch is that the author must remain anonymous, so Frensic produces a stand-in, Peter Piper, to pose as the writer of this "Lolita-in-reverse" -- a trans-Atlantic hoax that inevitably gets out of hand. The Great Pursuit is one of the most hilarious send-ups of publishing ever
Porterhouse Blue.
Porterhouse is a Cambridge college held fast by the steel cobwebs of tradition. When Sir Godber Evans is appointed Master, disturbing whispers of radical change echo through the Court and the Cloisters. But Skullion, the intensely reactionary Head Porter, is determined to get everything heading backwards to normal again.
Blott On The Landscape
In Blott on the Landscape, the landscape is flawless and the trees majestic until Sir Giles, a man of few principles and curious tastes, plots to destroy all this by building a highway smack through it, to line his own pocket and at the same time to dispose of his wife, the capacious Lady Maude. Sir Giles recruits to his side Hoskins, a corrupt local official, Lord Leakham, the environmental equivalent of a hanging judge, and Dundridge, a troublesome bureaucrat with an unhealthy passion for order. Pitted against this powerful lobby are a mere handful of local residents led by Lady Maude. This explosively comic novel will gladden the heart of everyone who has ever confronted a bureaucrat. Tom Sharpe spells out in riotous detail how the forces of virtue play an exceedingly dirty game when the issue is close to home.
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Binding: Hardcover
Published by: Peerage Books: , 1990
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ISBN: 9781850521716 | 1850521719
784 pages.
Book Condition: Fair
spine faded, inside cover foxed and tanned, text tanned
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