The Sphinx and the Megaliths
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2570840 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paula L Lutz (corresponding author), John Ivimy |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 339 |
| Publication date | 1975-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Man (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0025-1496 • E-ISSN: 2397-2548 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2800536 |
| OpenAlex | W2339912486 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Alexander McCall Smith, best-selling author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, has turned his hand to humour. The delightful result is a creation of comic genius. For in the unnaturally tall form of Professor Doctor Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, we are invited to meet a memorable character whose sublime insouciance is a blend of the cultivated pomposity of Frasier Crane and of Inspecteur Clouseau's hapless gaucherie. Von Igelfeld inhabits the rarefied world of the Institute of Romance Philology at Regensburg, a world he shares with his equally tall and equally ridiculous colleagues, Professors Florianus Prinzel and Detlev Amadeus Unterholzer. Their unlikely adventures are described in three deliciously funny instalments: Portuguese Irregular Verbs, The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs and At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances. THE 2 PILLARS OF WISDOM is a collection of these three novels
Ancient history · Archaeology · Megalith · Sphinx · History · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistics and Language Studies
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 1977 - 2008 (32) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |