Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | McCall Smith, Alexander |
| Publisher: | Anchor |
| Date: | 12/28/2004 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
Professor 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 thesethree light-footed comic novels by Alexander McCall Smith. Welcome to the insaneand rarified world of Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld of the Institute ofRomance Igelfeld is engaged in a never-ending quest to win the respecthe feels certain he is due–aquest which has the tendency to go hilariously astray.
In
At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances, Professor Dr. von Igelfeld gets caughtup in a nasty case of academic intrigue while on sabbatical at hereturns to Regensburg he is confronted with the thrilling news that someone froma foreign embassy has actually checked his masterwork,
Portuguese Irregular Verbs,out of the Institute’s a result, he gets caught up in intrigue of adifferent sort on a visit to Bogota, Colombia.
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