Review by
tulgeywood
on 31st Aug 2008
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Item: Alexander McCall Smith, Portuguese Irregular Verbs
Portuguese Irregular Verbs is quite an amusing book about Professor Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld and his two academic colleagues who are, at times, his rivals. There are a number of observations about university life that are presented in a very funny way, e.g. the protagonist's obsession with the importance of his opus magnum, a heavy book on everything that can be said about the irregular verbs in Portuguese. How Von Igelfeld is worried about the fact that his book doesn't sell particularly ...
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