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ISBN: 9781846554919 - The Prague Cemetery Bestseller The Prague Cemetery
Umberto Eco

ISBN10: 1846554918  ISBN13: 9781846554919
Publisher: Vintage Harvill Secker
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 03 Nov 2011
Nineteenth-century Europe - from Turin to Prague to Paris - abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Conspiracies rule history. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. French criminals... More

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ISBN: 9780099466031 - The Name of the Rose Bestseller The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco

ISBN10: 0099466031  ISBN13: 9780099466031
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 31 Jan 2004
Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. But his delicate mission is overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths. He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and digs... More

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ISBN: 9780099552451 - This is Not the End of the Book Bestseller This is Not the End of the Book
Umberto Eco, Jean-Claude Carriere

ISBN10: 0099552450  ISBN13: 9780099552451
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 May 2012
These days it is impossible to get away from discussions of whether the book will survive the digital revolution. This book presents conversations in which Jean-Claude Carriere and Umberto Eco discuss everything from how to define the first book... More

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ISBN: 9780857050205 - On Beauty On Beauty
Umberto Eco

ISBN10: 0857050206  ISBN13: 9780857050205
Publisher: Quercus Publishing Plc MacLehose Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 30 Sep 2010
Sumptuously illustrated and fascinatingly written - a vast store of wisdom about the nature of beauty itself. On Beauty is neither a history of art, nor a history of aesthetics, but Umberto Eco draws on both these disciplines to define the ideas... More

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ISBN: 9780099287155 - Foucault's Pendulum Foucault's Pendulum
Umberto Eco

ISBN10: 0099287153  ISBN13: 9780099287155
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Jun 2001
This novel by the author of "The Name of the Rose" follows that book's format of a complex intellectual thriller. The plot ranges back and forth through the centuries, full of arcane knowledge, secret societies, love, death, passion and perversion. More

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ISBN: 9780099422396 - Baudolino Baudolino
Umberto Eco

ISBN10: 0099422395  ISBN13: 9780099422396
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 02 Oct 2003
It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion, one Baudolino saves a Byzantine historian and high court official... More

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ISBN: 9780674058699 - Confessions of a Young Novelist Confessions of a Young Novelist
Umberto Eco

ISBN10: 0674058690  ISBN13: 9780674058699
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 05 Apr 2011
Umberto Eco published his first novel, The Name of the Rose, in 1980, when he was nearly fifty. In these "confessions" the author, now in his late seventies, looks back on his long career as a theorist and his more recent work as a novelist and... More

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ISBN: 9780749396664 - The Island of the Day Before The Island of the Day Before
Umberto Eco

ISBN10: 0749396660  ISBN13: 9780749396664
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 07 Oct 1996
Set in the 17th century, in Italy, France and on the high seas, this is a tale of medieval legends and dastardly deeds, mixed with portions of exploration literature. Roberto, a young nobleman, waits alone on a Pacific island, separated from the... More

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ISBN: 9780300093049 - Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages
Umberto Eco

ISBN10: 0300093047  ISBN13: 9780300093049
Publisher: Yale University Press
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Mar 2002
In this book, the Italian novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco presents a learned summary of medieval aesthetic ideas. Juxtaposing theology and science, poetry and mysticism, Eco explores the relationship that existed between the aesthetic... More

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ISBN: 9780753817988 - Mouse or Rat Mouse or Rat
Umberto Eco

ISBN10: 0753817985  ISBN13: 9780753817988
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 02 Dec 2004
From the world-famous author of THE NAME OF THE ROSE, an illuminating and humourous study on the pleasures and pitfalls of translation. 'Translation is always a shift,not between two languages but between two cultures. A translator must take into... More