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Portuguese irregular verbs / Alexander McCall Smith ; illustrations by Iain McIntosh.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Snack McCall Prof 1
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948-
- Series:
- McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948- Professor Dr. von Igelfeld entertainment novel
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Igelfeld, Moritz-Maria von (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
- Igelfeld, Moritz-Maria von (Fictitious character).
- College teachers--Fiction.
- College teachers.
- Philologists--Fiction.
- Philologists.
- College stories.
- Genre:
- Humorous fiction.
- Novels.
- Campus fiction.
- Humorous stories.
- College stories.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 128 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- 1st Anchor books ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Anchor Books, 2005.
- Summary:
- Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld of the Institute of Romance Philology learns to play tennis and forces a college chum to enter into a duel that results in a nipped nose. He also takes a field trip to Ireland where he becomes acquainted with the rich world of archaic Irishisms, and he develops an aching ingatuation with a dentist fatale. Along the way, he takes two ill-fated Italian sojourns, the first merely uncomfortable, the second defintitely dangerous.
- Contents:
- The principles of tennis
- Duel, and how to fight them
- Early Irish pornography
- Italian matters
- Portuguese irregular verbs
- Holy man
- Dental pain
- Death in Venice.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Edinburgh: Polygon, 2003.
- ISBN:
- 1400077087
- 9781400077083
- OCLC:
- 56834883
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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