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Publisher | Abacus |
Publication Year | 2004 |
ISBN-13 | 9780349118505 |
ISBN-10 | 9780349118505 |
Binding | Paperback |
Number of Pages | 400 Pages |
Language | (English) |
Dimensions (Cms) | 21 X 14.8 X 2 |
Weight (grms) | 268 |
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.
Alexander McCall Smith
Abacus