Munro, H.H. & Tom Sharpe (introduction)

The Best of Saki

Paperback; 1976; Pan Books/Picador; 250pp.; Browned. -- Conditie: Goed; Paperback, 8vo.; Engels; ISBN10: 0330247328, ISBN13: 9780330247320

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Book number: 349325-VF40

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Tom Sharpe - Mehl roland (traduction)

Quelle famille !

10/18 DOMAINE ETRANGER N°3342, 2001. 2001. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos plié, Intérieur frais. 315 pages. . . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne. ISBN: 2264032405.

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Tom Sharpe:

Alles Quatsch

Deutscher Bücherbund Stuttgart, 1982. Taschenbuch Gut Gewicht/weight ca. 250 gr. 301 Seiten /

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Book number: 109331

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Sharpe Tom

Ancestral Vices.

London, Pan-Books, 1982. 233blz., formaat 11-18cm., paperback - good

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Book number: 10077

Catalogue: Literatuur(Engels)

SHARPE, TOM

Ancestral Vices

London, Pan Books. 1982, Reprint. (ISBN: 0330266357). Mass Market Paperback. Book, Slight tanning else vg. Good Plus.

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Book number: 21134

Catalogue: Fiction

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Sharpe, Tom

Ancestral Vices.

Pan, 1982. Mass Market Paperback, 234pp, the edges browning a little with age. Illustrated covers by Paul Sample. A clean, tight copy. Hilarious... Very Good.

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Book number: 9216

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Keywords: Comedy, Humour,

Tom Sharpe

Ancestral Vices

Macmillan 1983 Paperback, 223pp. I remember reading Ancestral Vices for the first time, on a train. And did I laugh? I howled, I wept, I was a helpless, quivering jelly for minutes at a time. The other passengers probably assumed I was having a fit or seizure. In terms of plotline and characterisation, it is typical of Sharpe: the English class system is torn apart like tissue paper in a vicious social satire; the male characters are unsympathetic pedantics and deviants; women are often hideous gorgons. Yet there are two qualities that also come out in a Sharpe novel - a quaint love of the fault-ridden society with its appalling mores, iniquities and moral dilemmas, and a darker subtext presenting the evils of meddling with that society. Like few other writers I know, Tom Sharpe has an unerring eye for the ridiculous, and a rapier wit to exploit a farce to its most extreme potential. Some people might call it juvenile, schoolboy humour (including Sharpe himself), but that undersells his skill as a writer. (ISBN: 0330266357). Fair.

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Tom Sharpe

Ancestral Vices.

1982, 1982. Paperback. Pan Books F. Fair.

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Tom Sharpe

Ancestral Vices

Pan Books 1980 Paperback, 224pp. With his only friend a computer, Walden Yapp has lived a singular life. Professor of Demotic History at the University of Kloone, Yapp spends his days highlighting the corrupt capitalistic nature of the upper-classes, and his nights feeding Doris his computer the information he has gathered So when capitalist Lord Petrefact hires him to write a damaging family history, Yapp seizes the chance to chronicle the corrupt life of the Petrefact family. Spurred on by his expectations of dishonesty and depravity Yapp heads of the town of Buscott, where nobody is what they at first appear to be. Now a pawn in Lord Petrefact’s vindictive family game, Yapp’s presence is as welcome as the plague. From provoking dwarfish marital problems to uncovering an erotic toy factory Yapp’s presence sparks a chain of events that ends in death, destruction and a murder trial. Going through a car wash will never feel the same again. (ISBN: 0330266357). Good.

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SHARPE, TOM

Ancestral Vices

Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd. 1980-11-03, First Edition. (ISBN: 0436458098) hardcover, 6x2x9. First Edition. The copyright page has 'First Published in England 1980'. No additional printings are indicated. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Good.

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Book number: 281482

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Tom Sharpe

Ancestral Vices

London, Secker & Warburg, 1980. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this satirical novel following the brutal uncovering of a corrupt family. The first edition, first impression of this work.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.'Ancestral Vices' follows a lone professor who gets hired by capitalist Lord Petrefact to uncover the corrupt history of the family. Written by Tom Sharpe, an English satirical novelist, best known for his 'Wilt' series, as well as 'Porterhouse Blue' and 'Blott on the Landscape', all three of which were adapted for television. In the original cloth binding. In the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, with bumping to the head and tail of spine, otherwise very smart. Dust wrapper is edge worn. Internally, firmly bound with bright clean pages throughout. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed/Very Good Indeed.

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Book number: 910Y36

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Keywords: Modern Fiction Satirical Tom Sharpe Satirical None

Tom Sharpe

Ancestral Vices

London , Secker and Warburg, 1980. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this humorous novel from English satirical author Tom Sharpe. The first edition, first impression of this work.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.'Ancestral Vices' follows a lone professor who gets hired by capitalist Lord Petrefact to uncover the corrupt history of the family. From English satirical novelist, Tom Sharpe, who is best known for his 'Wilt' series, as well as 'Porterhouse Blue' and 'Blott on the Landscape', all three of which were adapted for television. In the original cloth binding. In the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart with bumping to the extremities and minor edgewear. Dust wrapper has edgewear and marks to the wrap. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed/Very Good Indeed.

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Book number: 911Y40

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Keywords: Modern Fiction Tom Sharpe Humour Tom Sharpe None

TOM SHARPE

Blott on the Landscape

London, Secker & Warburg. 1975, First Edition. (ISBN: 0436458039) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Sir Giles Lynchwood, millionaire property developer and Tory MP, is determined to see a motorway driven through the ancestral home of his spouse, Lady Maud. As local opposition grows, the MP is devoured by lions, and Lady Maud marries her gardener, Blott. CONDITION Black bds (top cnrs curved) 234 pages. Copy is toned to edges. DJ lightly handled, not price clipped. Good/Good.

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Book number: 15811

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Keywords: 0436458039

Tom Sharpe

Blott On The Landscape

ARROW BOOKS, 2002. 2002. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Papier jauni. 346 pages - En anglais. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon. ISBN: 0099435470.

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Tom Sharpe

Blott On The Landscape

Pan Books 1977 Paperback, 240pp. The landscape is flawless, the trees majestic, the flora and the fauna are right and proper. All is picturesquely typical of rural England at its best. Sir Giles, an MP of few principles and curious tastes, plots to destroy all this by building a motorway smack through it, to line his own pocket and at the same time to dispose of his wife, the capacious Lady Maude. But Lady Maude enlists a surprising ally in her enigmatic gardener Blott, a naturalised Englishman in whom adopted patriotism burns bright. Lady Maude's dynamism and Blott's concealed talents enable them to meet pressure with mimicry, loaded tribunals with publicity and chilli powder, and requisition orders with wickedly spiked beer. This explosively comic novel will gladden the heart of everyone who has ever confronted a bureaucrat, and spells out in riotous detail how the forces of virtue play an exceedingly dirty game when the issue is close to home. (ISBN: 0330250809). Good.

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Book number: 1515181

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Keywords: Fiction, Humour0330250809 0330250809