01438nam a22002057a 4500001000500000005001700005020001800022040002900040050001600069082000800085100002800093245009300121250007600214260002800290300002400318505000700342520084000349521002601189521001701215257420240103093826.0  a9780349118505  aFISKHbengcFISKHdFISKH  aPR6063.C326  a813  aSmith, Alexander McCall  aThe 2 and a half pillars of wisdom /cThe Von Igelfield Trilogy ; Alexander McCall Smith  aThis omnibus edition first published in Great Britain by Abacus in 2004  aLondon :bAbacus,c2004  a393 pages : b20 cm  aT   aAlexander 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.  a900 bLexile estimate  aT bRaz-Plus