The 2½ Pillars Of Wisdom

Name: The 2½ Pillars Of Wisdom
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Alexander McCall Smith
ISBN: 9780349118505

Alexander McCall Smith

11/11/2004
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Couverture de The 2½ Pillars Of Wisdom par Alexander McCall Smith

Résumé

Présentation de l'éditeur 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. Revue de presse Very amusing. ( MAIL ON SUNDAY) Professor Moritz-Maria von Igelfield is a hilarious creation. His bufoonish adventures- whether he's amputating legs of daschunds or assuming dictatorship of South American states- are packed full of wit. ( DAILY EXPRESS) Biographie de l'auteur Following a distinguished career as a Professor of Medical Law, Alexander McCall Smith has turned to writing full-time. He lives in Edinburgh.