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At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781400095094)
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Alexander McCall Smith
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xProfessor Dr. von Igelfeld Entertainment - Book 3
The Professor Dr. von Igelfeld Entertainment series slyly skewers academia, chronicling the comic misadventures of the endearingly awkward Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, and his long-suffering colleagues at the Institute of Romantic Philology in Germany.
Readers who fell in love with Precious Ramotswe, proprietor of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, now have new cause for celebration in the protagonist of these three light-footed comic novels by Alexander McCall Smith. Welcome to the insane and rarified world of Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld of the Institute of Romance Philology. Von Igelfeld is engaged in a never-ending quest to win the respect he feels certain he is due-a quest which has the tendency to go hilariously astray. In At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances, Professor Dr. von Igelfeld gets caught up in a nasty case of academic intrigue while on sabbatical at Cambridge. When he returns to Regensburg he is confronted with the thrilling news that someone from a foreign embassy has actually checked his masterwork, Portuguese Irregular Verbs, out of the Institute's Library. As a result, he gets caught up in intrigue of a different sort on a visit to Bogota, Colombia.
Author: Alexander McCall Smith
ISBN-10: 1400095093
ISBN-13: 9781400095094
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 12/28/2004
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.28w x 0.34d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2004 pg. 1113
Library Journal 01/15/2005 pg. 101
Library Journal 01/01/2005
New York Times 03/13/2005 pg. 34
The Professor Dr. von Igelfeld Entertainment series slyly skewers academia, chronicling the comic misadventures of the endearingly awkward Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, and his long-suffering colleagues at the Institute of Romantic Philology in Germany.
Readers who fell in love with Precious Ramotswe, proprietor of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, now have new cause for celebration in the protagonist of these three light-footed comic novels by Alexander McCall Smith. Welcome to the insane and rarified world of Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld of the Institute of Romance Philology. Von Igelfeld is engaged in a never-ending quest to win the respect he feels certain he is due-a quest which has the tendency to go hilariously astray. In At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances, Professor Dr. von Igelfeld gets caught up in a nasty case of academic intrigue while on sabbatical at Cambridge. When he returns to Regensburg he is confronted with the thrilling news that someone from a foreign embassy has actually checked his masterwork, Portuguese Irregular Verbs, out of the Institute's Library. As a result, he gets caught up in intrigue of a different sort on a visit to Bogota, Colombia.
Author: Alexander McCall Smith
ISBN-10: 1400095093
ISBN-13: 9781400095094
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 12/28/2004
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.28w x 0.34d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2004 pg. 1113
Library Journal 01/15/2005 pg. 101
Library Journal 01/01/2005
New York Times 03/13/2005 pg. 34
By Alexander McCall Smith
xAlexander McCall Smith is the author of the international phenomenon The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, and of a new series, The Sunday Philosophy Club. He was born in what is now known as Zimbabwe and was a law professor at the University of Botswana. He lives in Scotland, where he is a professor of medical law at Edinburgh University.
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