| Portuguese Irregular Verbs Contributor(s): McCall Smith, Alexander (Author) |
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ISBN: 1400077087 ISBN-13: 9781400077083 Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $15.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2004 Annotation: 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 Portuguese Irregular Verbs, Professor Dr von Igelfeld learns to play tennis, and forces a college chum to enter into a duel that results in a nipped nose. He also takes a field trip to Ireland where he becomes acquainted with the rich world of archaic Irishisms, and he develops an aching infatuation with a Dentist fatale. Along the way, he takes two ill-fated Italian sojourns, the first merely uncomfortable, the second definitely dangerous. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Humorous - General - Fiction | Satire - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2004043102 |
| Series: Professor Dr Von Igelfeld |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.1" W x 8" (0.25 lbs) 128 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 Portuguese Irregular Verbs, Professor Dr von Igelfeld learns to play tennis, and forces a college chum to enter into a duel that results in a nipped nose. He also takes a field trip to Ireland where he becomes acquainted with the rich world of archaic Irishisms, and he develops an aching infatuation with a Dentist fatale. Along the way, he takes two ill-fated Italian sojourns, the first merely uncomfortable, the second definitely dangerous. |