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Search - Portuguese Irregular Verbs (Portuguese Irregular Verbs)
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Book Description:
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.Members who requested this book also requested:
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.
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- Literature & Fiction >> General >> Comic
- Literature & Fiction >> World Literature >> British >> Contemporary
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Top Member Reviews
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Funny and engaging. The characters are not at all like the Ladies' #1 Detective Agency series (which are my favorite). The story lacks the warmth, truth, and sweetness of those books. Still, if you enjoy characters with personality quirks and a flair for the absurd - this book will do very well.
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1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Not as good as his #1 Ladies Detective series, but almost!! The professors are charming characters!
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
One of a series of three...At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances and The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs being the others. Each stands alone, but better if you read all 3.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Alexander McCall Smith starts another series; don't be fooled by the title -- it's in the same vein as his other comfortably paced, witty books, with literary and language allusions thrown in.
Cindy B. from BRIGHTON, CO wrote on 10/12/2006...
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Fun read. Professor Dr. von Igelfeld is quite a character.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
I am spoiled by the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency books. This novel is very different, and did not hook me. I think it would be good for one who loves word play.
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Pam H. from ROCKINGHAM, NC wrote on 8/25/2006...Excellent!
Corrina T. from LAS VEGAS, NV wrote on 4/4/2006...This book is strange, but in a good, hypnotic kind of way. I actually really liked it and am reading book 2 in the series now.
Welcome to the insane and rarified world of Professor Dr. von Igelfeld of the Inst of Philology. Never-ending quest to win the respect he feels certain he is due--a quest which has the tendency to go hilariously astray.
Susan M. from DURHAM, NC wrote on 12/27/2005...A collection of brief, humorous stories about a professor and his colleagues.
This is a slim volume about a few wacky professors. Imagine them, for instance, trying to enjoy playing tennis on their vacation, when none of them know anything about it except what they have just read in a rule book. I found it very funny in many places.