The 2 1/2 Pillars Of Wisdom

Alexander Mccall Smith

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Alexander McCall Smith, best-selling author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, has turned his hand to humor. The delightful result is a creation of comic genius. For in the unnaturally tall form of Professor Doctor Moritz-Maria von Ilfeld,

we are invited to meet a memorable character whose sublime insouciance is a blend of the cultivated pomposity of Frasier Crane and of Inspector Cousteau’s hapless gaucherie.

Von Ilfeld 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 Florian us Pretzel and Detlef Amadeus Underhole.

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.

Language English
ISBN-10 0-349-11850-7
No of pages 394
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Book Publisher Abacus
Published Date 11 Nov 2004

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