# Portuguese Irregular Verbs

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- Book: [Portuguese Irregular Verbs](https://www.bookquiver.com/alexander-mccall-smith/portuguese-irregular-verbs) ([Portuguese Irregular Verbs.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/alexander-mccall-smith/portuguese-irregular-verbs.md))
- Authors: [Alexander McCall Smith](https://www.bookquiver.com/alexander-mccall-smith)
- Publisher: little_brown_audio
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-14-0550-289-4
- Published: 2004-08-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook

## Description

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.