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The 2½ Pillars Of Wisdom
''The 2½ Pillars Of Wisdom'' is the collective name for three novels by Alexander McCall Smith. All three novels centre on the exploits of Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld. The title refers to the main character and his colleagues; the front matter explains that von Igelfeld “''had heard the three of them described as the Three Pillars of Wisdom, but looking at Professor Dr Detlev Amadeus Unterholzer he came to the conclusion that perhaps The 2½ Pillars of Wisdom might be more appropriate''”. *1997 ''Portuguese Irregular Verbs'' *2003 ''The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs ''The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs'' is a novel by Scottish author and academic Alexander McCall Smith. The book relates further matters in the life of the main character, Professor Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, following on from the first book ...'' *2003 '' At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances'' References {{DEFAULTSORT:2 Pillars Of Wisdom Novel series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander McCall Smith
Alexander "Sandy" McCall Smith, CBE, FRSE (born 24 August 1948), is a British writer. He was raised in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and formerly Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh. He became an expert on medical law and bioethics and served on related British and international committees. He has since become known as a fiction writer, with sales in English exceeding 40 million by 2010 and translations into 46 languages. He is known as the creator of ''The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency'' series. The "McCall" derives from his great-great-grandmother Bethea McCall, who married James Smith at Glencairn, Dumfries-shire, in 1833. Early life Alexander McCall Smith was born in 1948 in Bulawayo in the British colony of Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe), to British parents. He was the only son, having three elder sisters. His father worked as a public prosecutor in Bulawayo. McCall Smith's paternal grandfather was the medical doctor and New Zealand communit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muskogee Phoenix
The ''Muskogee Phoenix'' is a daily newspaper published in Muskogee, Oklahoma, United States, covering several counties of northeastern Oklahoma. It is owned by Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. The paper is printed five days a week (Tuesday-Saturday), while digital access is available 7 days a week. The Phoenix was founded in February 1888, when Oklahoma was still a territory. accessed February 18, 2007. From 1980 through 1986, Marjorie Paxson
Marjorie Paxson (August 13, 1923 – June 17, 2017) was an American newspaper journalist, editor, and publisher during an era in American history when the ...
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Muskogee, Oklahoma
Muskogee () is the thirteenth-largest city in Oklahoma and the county seat of Muskogee County. Home to Bacone College, it lies approximately southeast of Tulsa. The population of the city was 36,878 as of the 2020 census, a 6.0 percent decrease from 39,223 in 2010. History French fur traders were believed to have established a temporary village near the future Muskogee in 1806, but the first permanent European-American settlement was established in 1817 on the south bank of the Verdigris River, north of present-day Muskogee. After the passage of the Indian Removal Act of 1830 under President Andrew Jackson, the Muscogee Creek Indians were one of the "Five Civilized Tribes" forced out of the American Southeast to Indian Territory. They were accompanied by their slaves. The Indian Agency, a two-story stone building, was built here in Muskogee. It was a site for meetings among the leaders of the Five Civilized Tribes. Today it serves as a museum. At the top of what is known as A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moritz-Maria Von Igelfeld (character)
Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld is the main character in a series of short, humorous novels by Scottish author Alexander McCall Smith. In the books, Von Igelfeld is depicted as: *a "Professor Dr" *proud, stoic, and unable or unwilling to admit or face failure or imminent disaster in his professional or personal life (frequently the basis for the humour in these novels) *a philologist *the author of a fictional book ''Portuguese Irregular Verbs'', described as "''the seminal work on Romance philology''" and "''a lengthy book of some twelve hundred pages''" *proud of his aristocratic German heritage *an academic at the fictional Institute of Romance Philology in Regensburg, Germany *a colleague of the other major characters of the book series, Professor Dr Dr (''honoris causa'') Florianus Prinzel and Professor Dr Detlev Amadeus Unterholzer *a compound word name in the German language meaning " hedgehog field" (compounded from ''igel'' = hedgehog and ''feld'' = field) *tall *born on May ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Front Matter
Book design is the art of incorporating the content, style, format, design, and sequence of the various components and elements of a book into a coherent unit. In the words of renowned typographer Jan Tschichold (1902–1974), book design, "though largely forgotten today, elies uponmethods and rules upon which it is impossible to improve, nd whichhave been developed over centuries. To produce perfect books, these rules have to be brought back to life and applied". Richard Hendel describes book design as "an arcane subject", and refers to the need for a context to understand what that means. Structure Modern books are paginated consecutively, and all pages are counted in the pagination whether or not the numbers appear (see also: blind folio). The page number, or folio, may be found at the top or the bottom of the page, often flush left verso, flush right recto. The folio may also be printed at the bottom of the page, and in that location it is called a ''drop folio''. Drop folio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Detlev Amadeus Unterholzer
Detlev is a German given name. It is a spelling variant of Detlef. People with this name Notable people with this name include: * Detlev Blanke (born 1941), interlinguistics lecturer at Humboldt University of Berlin *Detlev Bronk (1897–1975), President of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland *Detlev Buchholz, theoretical physicist at Göttingen University * Detlev Buck (born 1962), German film director and actor *Otto Detlev Creutzfeldt (born 1927), German physiologist and neurologist *Detlev Dammeier (born 1968), German football coach and a former player * Wilhelm Heinrich Detlev Körner (1878–1938), illustrator of the American West * Detlev Lauscher (1952–2010), German footballer who played as a striker * Detlev von Liliencron (1844–1909), German lyric poet and novelist from Kiel * Detlev Mehlis (born 1949), Senior Public Prosecutor in the Office of the Attorney General in Berlin *Detlev F. Neufert Detlev F. Neufert is a German author, filmmaker, photograph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portuguese Irregular Verbs (novel)
''Portuguese Irregular Verbs'' is a short comic novel by Alexander McCall Smith, and the first of McCall Smith's series of novels featuring Professor Dr von Igelfeld. It was first published in 1997. Some consider the book to be a series of connected short stories. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, a pompous professor of Romance languages, graduates from college, and works hard to write a tome on Portuguese irregular verbs, his claim to academic fame. He talks and talks about it at conferences, usually attending with his two closest colleagues. They encounter the world outside academia with entertaining clumsiness. One review says the main character is "a gentle figure who deserves every cartoon anvil that falls on his head", in the humorous tradition of fictional characters Mr. Samuel Pickwick (in ''The Pickwick Papers'' by Charles Dickens), Bouvard and Pécuchet (in an unfinished work by Gustave Flaubert), and Mr Pooter of ''Diary of a Nobody''. Another reviewer considers the boo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Finer Points Of Sausage Dogs (novel)
''The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs'' is a novel by Scottish author and academic Alexander McCall Smith. The book relates further matters in the life of the main character, Professor Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, following on from the first book of the series, ''Portuguese Irregular Verbs''. The Professor is a troubled German academic whose life's achievement is the (fictional) book, ''Portuguese Irregular Verbs''. The book relates details of his troubled relationships with the other major characters of the book series, Professor Dr Dr ('' honoris causa'') Florianus Prinzel and Professor Dr Detlev Amadeus Unterholzer, all at the fictional Institute of Romance Philology at Regensburg, Germany; and, especially, the outcomes of von Igelfeld's academic journey to the University of Arkansas while staying at Fayetteville, Arkansas. The book has five chapters: # The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs # A Leg to Stand on # On the Couch # The Bones of Father Christmas # The Perfect Imper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
At The Villa Of Reduced Circumstances (novel)
''At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances'' is a book by Scottish author and academic Alexander McCall Smith, relating further matters in the life of the main character, Professor Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld. Plot The Professor is a troubled German academic whose life's achievement is the (fictional) book, ''Portuguese Irregular Verbs''. The book relates details of von Igelfeld's troubled relationships with the other major characters of the book series, Professor Dr Dr ('' honoris causa'') Florianus Prinzel and Professor Dr Detlev Amadeus Unterholzer, who work at the fictional Institute of Romance Philology at Regensburg, Germany. The book consists of two longer stories. In the first story, ''On Being Light Blue'' von Igelfeld's birthday wish leads him to a four-month stint at Cambridge University where he is nonplussed by the eccentric English academics and their constant infighting. In the second story, ''The Villa of Reduced Circumstances,'' von Igelfeld unwittingly become ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The 2½ Pillars Of Wisdom
''The 2½ Pillars Of Wisdom'' is the collective name for three novels by Alexander McCall Smith. All three novels centre on the exploits of Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld. The title refers to the main character and his colleagues; the front matter explains that von Igelfeld “''had heard the three of them described as the Three Pillars of Wisdom, but looking at Professor Dr Detlev Amadeus Unterholzer he came to the conclusion that perhaps The 2½ Pillars of Wisdom might be more appropriate''”. *1997 ''Portuguese Irregular Verbs'' *2003 ''The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs ''The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs'' is a novel by Scottish author and academic Alexander McCall Smith. The book relates further matters in the life of the main character, Professor Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, following on from the first book ...'' *2003 '' At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances'' References {{DEFAULTSORT:2 Pillars Of Wisdom Novel series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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