# The 2½ Pillars Of Wisdom

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- Book: [The 2½ Pillars Of Wisdom](https://www.bookquiver.com/alexander-mccall-smith/the-2-pillars-of-wisdom) ([The 2½ Pillars Of Wisdom.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/alexander-mccall-smith/the-2-pillars-of-wisdom.md))
- Authors: [Alexander McCall Smith](https://www.bookquiver.com/alexander-mccall-smith)
- Publisher: abacus
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-07-4811-079-7
- Published: 2008-10-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## 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.