description: Readers who fell in love with Precious Ramotswe, proprietor of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, now have new cause for celebration in the protagonist of these three light-footed comic novels by Alexander McCall Smith. Welcome to the insane and rarified world of Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld of the Institute of Romance Philology. 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. 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. 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. Along the way, he takes two ill-fated Italian sojourns, the first merely uncomfortable, the second definitely dangerous.
language: English
title: Portuguese Irregular Verbs
titlecomplete: Portuguese Irregular Verbs (Portuguese Irregular Verbs #1)
characters: Professor Dr Dr Florianus Prinzel, Professor Dr Dieter Vogelsang, Professor Dr Detlev Amadeus Unterholzer, Professor Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, Professor J. G. K. L. Singh, Dr Lisbetta von Brautheim, Margareta Cossi, Ophelia Prinzel, Dr Patrick Fitzcarron O’Leary
genres: Comedy, Mystery, Adult Fiction, Short Stories, Humor, Germany, Audiobook, Literature, Contemporary, Fiction
ratings_count: 8368
places: Munich (München), Ireland, Montalcino, Tuscany, Tuscany, Zurich, Goa, Germany, Venice, Regensburg, Bavaria, Heidelberg
series: Portuguese Irregular Verbs
publisher: Recorded Books