Professor Dr. von Igelfeld Series
Knopf
December 2004
128 pages ISBN: 1400095093 EAN: 9781400095094 Kindle: B000XUDGJO Paperback / e-Book (reprint) Add to Wish List
The many fans of Precious Ramotswe will find further cause
for celebration in the protagonist of Alexander McCall
Smith's irresistibly funny trilogy, the eminent (if
shamefully under-read) philologist Professor Dr. Mortiz-
Maria von Igelfeld of the Institute at Regensburg.
Unnaturally tall, hypersensitive to slights, and oblivious
to his own frequent gaucheries, von Igelfeld is engaged in
a never-ending quest to win the respect he knows is due
him.
Portuguese Irregular Verbs follows the Professor from a
busman's holiday researching old Irish obscenities to a
flirtation with a desirable lady dentist. In The Finer
Points of Sausage Dogs, von Igelfeld practices veterinary
medicine without a license, transports relics for a
schismatically challenged Coptic prelate and is mobbed by
marriage-minded widows on board a Mediterranean cruise
ship. In At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances, the final
novel in the trilogy, we find our hero suffering the
slings of academic intrigue as a visiting fellow at
Cambridge, and the slings of outrageous fortune in an
eventful Columbian adventure.