The finer points of sausage dogs

Description

The 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. In The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs, Professor Dr. Von Igelfeld is mistaken for a veterinarian and not wanting to call attention to the faux pas, begins practicing veterinary medicine without a license. He ends up operating on a friend’s dachshund to dramatic and unfortunate effect. He also transports relics for a schismatically challenged Coptic prelate, and is pursued by marriage-minded widows on board a Mediterranean cruise ship.

Description

Invited to lecture in America, von Igelfeld envisions a visit to California or New York. Instead, he finds himself at the University of Arkansas. Still, in von Igelfeld's view, one American state is very like the other. An expert philolgist, von Igelfeld prepares to deliver a talk on verbs, until he makes a grim discovery--he has been mistaken for a German master of veterinary science who has recently passed away.

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• Fiction.

Other Editions

• The finer points of sausage dogsAnchor Books2005-01-01
• The finer points of sausage dogsPolygon2003-01-01
• The finer points of sausage dogsAnchor Books2003-01-01
• The Finer Points of Sausage DogsHardcoverBrand: Not Avail2003-04-24
• Finer Points of Sausage Dogs, thePaperbackVintage Canada2004-01-01
• The finer points of sausage dogs.W. F. Howes2004-01-01