The 2 and a half pillars of wisdom /
Smith, Alexander McCall
The 2 and a half pillars of wisdom / The Von Igelfield Trilogy ; Alexander McCall Smith - This omnibus edition first published in Great Britain by Abacus in 2004 - London : Abacus, 2004 - 393 pages : 20 cm
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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.
900 Lexile estimate T Raz-Plus
9780349118505
PR6063.C326
813
The 2 and a half pillars of wisdom / The Von Igelfield Trilogy ; Alexander McCall Smith - This omnibus edition first published in Great Britain by Abacus in 2004 - London : Abacus, 2004 - 393 pages : 20 cm
T
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.
900 Lexile estimate T Raz-Plus
9780349118505
PR6063.C326
813