Unusual Uses for Olive Oil
By Alexander McCall Smith
By Alexander McCall Smith
By Alexander McCall Smith
By Alexander McCall Smith
Part of Professor Dr von Igelfeld Series
Part of Professor Dr von Igelfeld Series
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Paperback $15.00
Jan 01, 2013 | ISBN 9780307279897
A Decent Ride
Wigs on the Green
Rumpole Misbehaves
Montalbano’s First Case and Other Stories
Mr Hire’s Engagement
Noises Off
The Cripple of Inishmaan
Death at Sea
Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel
Praise
“Delightfully silly…. [von Igelfeld is a literary Mr. Magoo.” —The Washington Post
“Filled with comic characters, all academics of a particularly stripe. . . . McCall Smith has the same gift that John Mortimer has in making boring conversations hilarious—the atmosphere in the Institute of Romance Philology’s coffee room is very like the one-upmanship and backbiting in Horace Rumpole’s chambers. Academia can be a hoot, and this series proves it.”
—Booklist
“Professor von Igelfeld is a comic gem. . . . McCall Smith skewers the pomposity of academic pretension with an irresistible, deadpan insouciance.”
–BlogCritics
Acclaim for the Portuguese Irregular Verbs series
“A comedic jewel… [At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances] attains a level of sublime nonsense reminiscent of Woody Allen’s Bananas.” —The New York Times
“In the halls of academe, a setting fraught with ego-driven battles for power and prestige [McCall Smith] has rendered yet another one-of-a-kind character: the bumbling but brilliant Dr. Mortiz-Maria von Igelfeld . . . . [a] deftly rendered trilogy [with] endearingly eccentric characters.” —Chicago Sun-Times
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