A funny, character driven comic novel

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	• At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances Alexander Mccall Smith Anchor, 2004 - 128 pages average customer review:based on 25 reviews view larger image
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Delightful eccentricity

Professor Von Igelfeld is quickly becoming one of my favorite fictional characters. I love novels about eccentric characters, and it's hard to imagine a character that fits the description better than Von Igelfeld. The wit is dry and at the same time laugh-out-loud funny. I am hoping for many, many more novels in this series from Mr. McCall Smith.

At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances

This book concludes the adventures and mishaps of Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, esteemed professor of philology, and author of "Portugese Irregular Verbs." This third title involves von Igelfeld in becoming the president of a unstable South American country, a job that no one else wants because of routine assasinations. It is charming both in wit and wisdom. Highly enjoyable, however, read books one and two first!

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A funny, character driven comic novel

If you love McCall-Smith's characters, you will love this newest adventure of the befuddled German professor he introduced in Portuguese Irregular Verbs. McCall obviously loves this ridiculous man, and so do I.

Charming but not engaging

Fun, simple read but not enough to make me want to read more of this series. I was never really sure what the point was and yes there is some satire to be found, but maybe just too subtle for my taste.

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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 At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances, Professor Dr. von Igelfeld gets caught up in a nasty case of academic intrigue while on sabbatical at Cambridge. When he returns to Regensburg he is confronted with the thrilling news that someone from a foreign embassy has actually checked his masterwork, Portuguese Irregular Verbs, out of the Institute?s Library. As a result, he gets caught up in intrigue of a different sort on a visit to Bogota, Colombia.

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