Umberto Eco
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Language
English
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The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. His delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths that take place in seven days and night of apocalyptic terror. The body of one monk is found in a cask of pigs' blood, another is floating in a bathhouse, still another is crushed at the foot of a cliff.
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English
Description
19th-century Europe, from Turin to Prague to Paris, abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. In Italy, republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. In France, during the Paris Commune, people eat mice, plan bombings and rebellions in the streets, and celebrate Black Masses. Every nation has its own secret service and secret organizations that are plotting against each other, perpetrating conspiracies...
3) Numero zero
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
"A novel about the murky world of media politics, conspiracy, and murder."--
1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of Il Duce's death remain controversial. 1992, Milan. Colonna, a depressed hack writer, is offered a fee he can't resist to ghostwrite a book. His subject: a fledgling newspaper, which happens to be financed by a powerful media magnate. As Colonna gets to know...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Internationally best-selling author Umberto Eco is a master stylist whose books, including Baudolino, have been savored by millions around the world. Now, with The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, he crafts another ambitious and breathtaking novel. When book dealer Yambo suffers amnesia, his only remaining memories are books, poems, songs, and movies. Steeped in nostalgia and filled with vivid imagery, this work is a magnificent addition to Eco's...
5) Baudolino
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Inc
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
521 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
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 historian and high court official from certain death at the hands of the crusading warriors and proceeds to tell his own fantastical story. Born a simple peasant in northern Italy, Baudolino has two major gifts-a talent for learning languages and a...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Language
English
Description
In this collection of essays and addresses delivered over the course of his illustrious career, Umberto Eco seeks "to understand the chemistry of [his] passion" for the word. From musings on Ptolemy and "the force of the false" to reflections on the experimental writing of Borges and Joyce, Eco's luminous intelligence and encyclopedic knowledge are on dazzling display throughout. And when he reveals his own ambitions and superstitions, his authorial...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
vii, 304 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Collects short essays from the author that reflect on the changing modern world, touching on such topics as popular culture, politics, being seen, conspiracies, the old and the young, new technologies, mass media, racism, and good manners.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
©1989
Edition
1st trade ed.
Physical Desc
641 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Three editors conspire to devise a plan of their own about European history. As they feed all the information into their computer, they think it is a terrific joke--until people begin to mysteriously disappear.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 111 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this prescient essay collection, the acclaimed author of Foucault's Pendulum examines the cultural trends and perils at the dawn of the 21st century. In the last decade of the 20th century, Umberto Eco saw an urgent need to embrace tolerance and multiculturalism in the face of our world's ever-increasing interconnectivity. At a talk delivered during the first Gulf War, he points out the absurdity of armed conflict in a globalized economy where...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace & Co
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
515 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the year 1643, a violent storm in the South Pacific leaves Roberto della Griva shipwrecked-on a ship. Swept from the Amaryllis, he has managed to pull himself aboard the Daphne, anchored in the bay of a beautiful island. The ship is fully provisioned, he discovers, but the crew is missing.
As Roberto explores the different cabinets in the hold, he looks back on various episodes from his life: Ferrante, his imaginary evil brother; the siege of...
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Series
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
ix, 129 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Best-selling author Umberto Eco's latest work unlocks the riddles of history in an exploration of the "linguistics of the lunatic," stories told by scholars, scientists, poets, fanatics, and ordinary people in order to make sense of the world. Exploring the "Force of the False," Eco uncovers layers of mistakes that have shaped human history, such as Columbus's assumption that the world was much smaller than it is, leading him to seek out a quick route...
Author
Series
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
c1976
Physical Desc
ix, 354 p. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eco's treatment demonstrates his mastery of the field of semiotics. It focuses on the twin problems of the doctrine of signs-communication and signification-and offers a highly original theory of sign production, including a carefully wrought typology of signs and modes of production.
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
ix, 318 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"On the Shoulders of Giants collects previously unpublished essays from the last fifteen years of Umberto Eco's life. With humor and erudition, one of the great contemporary thinkers takes on the roots of Western culture, the origin of language, the nature of beauty and ugliness, the imperfections of art, and the lure of mysteries"--
Author
Publisher
MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xxvi, 229 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Eco's approach is anything but dry and academic. He not only offers practical advice but also considers larger questions about the value of the thesis-writing exercise. How to Write a Thesis is unlike any other writing manual. It reads like a novel. It is opinionated. It is frequently irreverent, sometimes polemical, and often hilarious. Eco advises students how to avoid "thesis neurosis" and he answers the important question "Must You Read Books?"...
Author
Series
Charles Eliot Norton lectures volume 1993
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
153 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Rizzoli Ex Libris
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
477 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A fascinating illustrated tour of the fabled places in literature and folklore that have awed, troubled, and eluded us through the ages"--Provided by publisher.