Smith, Alexander McCall <br/><br/>
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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<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/> 900   Lexile estimate  T   Raz-Plus 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780349118505 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR6063.C326 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>813