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yhteensä 71 hakutulosta
The Name of the Rose
An international sensation and winner of the Premio Strega and the Prix M dicis Etranger awards, this enthralling medieval murder mystery "explodes with pyrotechnic inventions, …
Numero Zero
1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of II Duce's death remain shrouded in confusion and controversy. …
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
In Six Walks in the Fictional Woods Umberto Eco shares with us his Secret Life as a reader—his love for MAD magazine, for Scarlett O'Hara, for the nineteenth-century French …
Prague Cemetery
Nineteenth-century Europe abounds with conspiracy both ghastly and mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate black masses by …
On Literature
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 …
On Ugliness
Beauty and ugliness are two sides of the same coin; by ugliness we usually mean the opposite of beauty and we often define the first in order to understand the nature of the …
Travels in Hyper Reality
Eco displays in these essays the same wit, learning, and lively intelligence that delighted readers of The Name of the Rose and Foucault s Pendulum. His range is wide, and his …
Island of the Day Before
A fascinating, lyrical tale about an Italian nobleman stranded on a deserted ship in the Pacific Ocean--a "dazzling blend of science and fantasy" (Los Angeles Times) and a …
Foucault's Pendulum
"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 …
The Open Work
Essays discuss poetry, communication, television, form, aesthetics, bad taste, and art