Discover the Middle Ages with Baudolino, a tale of history, myth and invention. Sold 70,000 copies in hardback. "has everything, myths, marvels, monsters, murders, mysteries" Financial...
In this volume, the Italian novelist and playwright Umberto Eco aims to present a learned summary of mediaeval aesthetic ideas. Juxtaposing theology and science, poetry and mysticism,...
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The internationally acclaimed author of THE NAME OF THE ROSE presents a timely collection of essays written over the last ten years. Full of passion and curiosity, they examine topics...
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Read the enthralling medieval murder mystery. The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate...
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Who is killing monks in a great medieval abbey famed for its library - and why? Brother William of Baskerville is sent to find out, taking with him the assistant who later tells the...
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Smart new jacket to tie in with Island Of The Day Before which is due to be published in October...
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Nineteenth-century Europe abounds with conspiracy both ghastly and mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian priests are strangled with their own intestines. French criminals...
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Five essays which discuss contemporary issues, including multi-culturalism, war, politics and ethics without God. "Passionately argued and deeply engaged" Telegraph...
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"... the greatest contribution to [semiotics] since the pioneering work of C. S. Peirce and Charles Morris. " (Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism). "... draws on philosophy, linguistics,...
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Book Summary Hilarious and provocative, fanciful and wise, offering answers to questions we never thought to ask and questions to the answers we always thought we knew, these essays...
Set in Italy in the Middle Ages, this is not only a narrative of a murder investigation in a monastery in 1327, but also a chronicle of the 14th century religious wars, a history of...
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Remarkably accessible and unfailingly stimulating, this collection of essays exhibits the diversity of interests and the depth of knowledge that made Umberto Eco one of the world's...
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"An encyclopedic detective story ... An intellectual triumph. "-Anthony Burgess"Foucault's Pendulum is Eco's magical mystery tour of the Western mind... With this book, Eco...
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More than twenty years after its original appearance in Italian, "The Open Work" remains significant for its powerful concept of "openness"--the artist's decision to leave arrangements...
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Valiéndose de características propias de la novela gótica, la crónicamedieval, la novela policíaca, el relato ideológico en clave y laalegoría narrativa, El nombre de la rosa narra...
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