In 1976 Tom Sharpe created Henry Wilt, one of the great antiheroes of contemporary literature, who ended up starring in the five hilarious novels collected in this volume: Wilt, The Tribulations of Wilt, Cheer Up, Wilt!, Wilt Doesn't Make It Clear and The Wilt's inheritance.

Wilt is a literature professor at a vocational training polytechnic, and his work life sucks because he has to teach real idiots and deal with no less insufferable colleagues. On the domestic front things are not going much better: his wife Eva tends to be stubborn and bossy, and over time the fearsome gifted quadruplets arrive, whose schooling in a very expensive school for smart children leads the parent down the path of bitterness. economical. And to top it off there is also Flint, the insidious police inspector who seems hell-bent on making poor Wilt's life miserable.

In these five masterpieces of contemporary humor the reader will find unexpected twists, bizarre situations, deranged characters (starting with the protagonist, always on the verge of a nervous breakdown), high doses of unleashed lubricity – the appearance of an inflatable doll in the first installment of Wilt's adventures – and, above all, a feast of laughter. In his novels, Sharpe displays a ferocious and wild comedy that leaves no stone unturned. And Wilt's character is the most joyful and hilarious of his creatures.

«Tom Sharpe, the great comedian successor to Evelyn Waugh and Wodehouse, goes further than anyone else» (David Hughes); «A master of satire... The king of the most outrageous caricature» (Evening Standard); «A great craftsman of the art of farce... Wild and hilarious» (The Observer); "The funniest contemporary novelist" (The Times); "Britain's best comic writer" (Mail on Sunday); «The great lord of British humor» (Punch).