Portuguese Irregular Verbs: A Professor Dr Von Igelfeld Entertainment Novel (1) (Professor Dr Von Igelfeld, #1) (Professor Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld)

by Alexander McCall Smith

Iain McIntosh (Illustrator)

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Alexander McCall Smith, best-selling author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, has turned his hand to humour. The delightful result is a creation of comic genius. For in the unnaturally tall form of Professor Doctor Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, we are invited to meet a memorable character whose sublime insouciance is a blend of the cultivated pomposity of Frasier Crane and of Inspecteur Clouseau's hapless gaucherie. Von Igelfeld inhabits the rarefied world of the Institute of Romance Philology at Regensburg, a world he shares with his equally tall and equally ridiculous colleagues, Professors Florianus Prinzel and Detlev Amadeus Unterholzer. Their unlikely adventures are described in three deliciously funny instalments: Portuguese Irregular Verbs, The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs and At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances.
  • ISBN10 0307427293
  • ISBN13 9780307427298
  • Publish Date 18 December 2007 (first published 5 August 2004)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint Anchor Books
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 78
  • Language English