Portuguese Irregular Verbs (Professor Dr Von Igelfeld #1 Pb)

Author: Alexander McCall Smith; Iain McIntosh (Illustrator)

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Price : $24.95 AUD
ISBN : 9781400077083
Publisher : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint : Ballantine Books Inc.
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Weight (g) : 0.140614
Publication date : December 2004
Dimensions : 203mm X 134mm X 9mm
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Author : Alexander McCall Smith; Iain McIntosh (Illustrator)
Series : Professor Dr Von Igelfeld Ser.
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Edition : 1204
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Language : English
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Pages : 132
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A deliciously entertaining new series by the bestselling author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

The many fans of Precious Ramotswe will find further cause for celebration in the protagonist of Alexander McCall Smith's irresistibly funny trilogy, the eminent (if shamefully under-read) philologist Professor Dr. Mortiz-Maria von Igelfeld of the Institute at Regensburg. Unnaturally tall, hypersensitive to slights, and oblivious to his own frequent gaucheries, von Igelfeld is engaged in a never-ending quest to win the respect he knows is due him.

Portuguese Irregular Verbs follows the Professor from a busman's holiday researching old Irish obscenities to a flirtation with a desirable lady dentist. In The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs, von Igelfeld practices veterinary medicine without a license, transports relics for a schismatically challenged Coptic prelate and is mobbed by marriage-minded widows on board a Mediterranean cruise ship. In At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances, the final novel in the trilogy, we find our hero suffering the slings of academic intrigue as a visiting fellow at Cambridge, and the slings of outrageous fortune in an eventful Columbian adventure.

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"In the halls of academe, a setting fraught with ego-driven battles for power and prestige [Alexander McCall Smith] has rendered yet another one-of-a-kind character: the bumbling but brilliant Dr. Mortiz-Maria von Igelfeld . . . . [a] deftly rendered trilogy [with] endearingly eccentric characters." --"Chicago Sun-Times"

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