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050			_aPR6063.C326
082			_a813
100			_aSmith, Alexander McCall
245			_aThe 2 and a half pillars of wisdom / _cThe Von Igelfield Trilogy ; Alexander McCall Smith
250			_aThis omnibus edition first published in Great Britain by Abacus in 2004
260			_aLondon : _bAbacus, _c2004
300			_a393 pages : _b20 cm
505			_aT
520			_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.
521			_a900 _bLexile estimate
521			_aT _bRaz-Plus
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