Alexander McCall Smith, best-selling author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, has turned his hand to humour. The delightful result is a creation of comic genius. For in the unnaturally tall form of Professor Doctor Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, we are invited to meet a memorable character whose sublime insouciance is a blend of the cultivated pomposity of Frasier Crane and of Inspecteur Clouseau's hapless gaucherie. Von Igelfeld inhabits the rarefied world of the Institute of Romance Philology at Regensburg, a world he ...
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Alexander McCall Smith, best-selling author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, has turned his hand to humour. The delightful result is a creation of comic genius. For in the unnaturally tall form of Professor Doctor Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, we are invited to meet a memorable character whose sublime insouciance is a blend of the cultivated pomposity of Frasier Crane and of Inspecteur Clouseau's hapless gaucherie. Von Igelfeld inhabits the rarefied world of the Institute of Romance Philology at Regensburg, a world he shares with his equally tall and equally ridiculous colleagues, Professors Florianus Prinzel and Detlev Amadeus Unterholzer. Their unlikely adventures are described in three deliciously funny instalments: Portuguese Irregular Verbs, The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs and At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances. THE 2 PILLARS OF WISDOM is a collection of these three novels
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Very Good in Good jacket. 1st printing, 208 pages, illustrated, appendices, index, jacket design by Clive Tunnicliffe, light foxing along top edge, fading to jacket spine, foxing to reverse of jacket.
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192pp. Soft covers. Good Offers an insight into the ancient wisdom of the priesthoods, while providing a new interpretation of the ambivalent form of the Sphinx and of the legend of its famous riddle.
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Fine in Fine dust jacket. 0855000228. First edition 8vo 208 pages illustrated with black & white photographs, maps and drawings. The author proposes the theory that Stonehenge was in fact an Egyptian colony, established for political reasons by the priests of the sun god Ra. Fine brown cloth hard back with fine unclipped dust jacket. No inscriptions or marks.; Black & white photographs and drawings; 8vo 8"-9" tall.
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Very good. A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. An ex-library book and may have standard library stamps and/or stickers. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.
