{"product_id":"9781400095094","title":"At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances (Professor Dr. von Igelfeld Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eProfessor Dr. von Igelfeld Entertainment - Book 3\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Professor Dr. von Igelfeld Entertainment series slyly skewers academia, chronicling the comic misadventures of the endearingly awkward Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, and his long-suffering colleagues at the Institute of Romantic Philology in Germany.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReaders 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cb\u003eAt the Villa of Reduced Circumstances\u003c\/b\u003e, 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, \u003cb\u003ePortuguese Irregular Verbs\u003c\/b\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47043182985456,"sku":"9781400095094","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781400095094_p0.jpg?v=1763711728","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781400095094","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}