Portuguese Irregular Verbs
Alexander McCall Smith
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
&nbsp;<br> <b>PORTUGUESE IRREGULAR VERBS - Book 1</b><br><br> <b>The Portuguese Irregular Verbs series slyly skewers academia, chronicling the comic misadventures of the endearingly awkward Professor Dr. Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, and his long-suffering colleagues at the Institute of Romantic Philology in Germany. </b><br> &nbsp;<br>Readers who fell in love with Precious Ramotswe, proprietor of The No. 1 Ladies&rsquo;   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&ndash;a  quest which has the tendency to go hilariously astray.   <br><br> In <b>Portuguese Irregular Verbs</b>, Professor Dr von Igelfeld learns to play tennis,   and forces a college chum to enter...</br></br></br></br></br></br></br>