num_pages: 128
description: A deliciously entertaining new series by the bestselling author of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective AgencyThe 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.
language: English
title: At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances
titlecomplete: At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances (Portuguese Irregular Verbs, #3)
characters: Professor Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, Gabriel Marcales de Cinco Fermentaciones, Herr Huber, Professor Dr Detlev Amadeus Unterholzer
genres: Comedy, Literature, Contemporary, Humor, Germany, Fiction, Audiobook, Adult Fiction, Academia, Mystery
ratings_count: 4235
places: Colombia, Bavaria, Cambridge, England, Germany, Bogotá (Bogota), Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, Regensburg, Bavaria
series: Portuguese Irregular Verbs
publisher: Vintage Canada