Portuguese Irregular Verbs (Professor Dr von Igelfeld Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.82 (911 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1400077087 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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Along the way, he takes two ill-fated Italian sojourns, the first merely uncomfortable, the second definitely dangerous.. 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. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld of the Institute of Romance Philology. Professor Dr. 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. 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. Welcome to the insane and rarified world of Professor Dr. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, now have new cause for celebration in the protagonist of these three light-footed comic novels by Alexander McCall Smith. 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. von Igelfeld Entertainment- Book 1The Professor Dr. von Igelfeld Entertainment series slyly skewers academia, chronicling the comic misadventures of the endearingly awkward Professor Dr
“In the halls of academe, a setting fraught with ego-driven battles for power and prestige Alexander McCall Smith has rendered yet another one-of-a-kind character: the bumbling but brilliant Dr. a deftly rendered trilogy with endearingly eccentric characters.” —Chicago Sun-Times. Mortiz-Maria von Igelfeld
For those who love 'British' humor or perhaps Frasier The first of three books in the Professor Dr von Igelfeld Series (same author as #1 Ladies Detective).Comical episodes surrounding the mishaps of three extremely rigid (and hysterical) German professors who are experts (of course) in their field of language/linguistics (imagine a German version of Fraiser). Racked by guilt and self-certainty, waves of supreme confidence and landslides of self-doubt, their everyday incidents will have you laughing aloud. Fans of Basil Faulty or P. G. Wodehouse and like British-humor will delight in the characters and their very . Not for everyone, but AMS's talent for writing still amazes! Carolyn Rowe Hill Under 'Book Description' on this book's Amazon site, reference is made to the "rarified world" of Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld the great philologist (one who studies literary texts to determine their original form and meaning; an older word for 'linguistics'. Can one imagine anything more tedious? or bo-o-r-r-ing?). Rarified, indeed, it isalmost out of the stratosphere. Our dear doctor lives so completely in his head that he misses the point of almost all that goes on around him in the world of the mundane. He is also extraordinarily socially inept. In one inst. When The Ivory Tower Meets The Real World This book is the first in McCall Smith's "Professor Dr. von Igelfeld" Series. The Professor is the protagonist of all these books, as Precious Ramotswe is the protagonist in all the "No. 1 Ladies Detective" Series books. But Professor Dr. von Igelfeld is quite a different character all together.A professor of Romance Philology, Dr. von Igelfeld sees himself as a great academician in the present day world. Yet his field is so narrow and so esoteric, that there are few who really have interest in it. Yet, the good Dr. writes the definitive book on Portuguese Irre
1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, the Isabel Dalhousie Series, the Portuguese Irregular Verbs series, the 44 Scotland Street series and the Corduroy Mansions series. . He is professor emeritus of medical law at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and has served with many national and international organizations concerned with bioethics. He w