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Professor of Semiotics Umberto Eco (University of Bologna)
The national bestseller–now in paperback with an exquisite cover with foil and French flaps. Umberto Eco, one of the greatest storytellers of all time, continues to enthrall readers with this…
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A posthumous collection of essays by the great novelist, essayist, literary critic, and philosopher Umberto Eco
From the author of The Name of the Rose comes this collection of six essays where Eco explores in depth questions of reality, perception, and experience. At once philosophical and…
A collection of timely essays written over the last ten years by Umberto Eco, internationally acclaimed and best-selling author.
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.
This witty and irreverent collection of essays presents Eco’s playful but unfailingly accurate takes on everything from militarism, computer jargon, Westerns, librarians and bureaucrats to meals on airplanes, Amtrak trains…
Playful parodies by the author of The Name of the Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum. Here, Eco pokes fun at the oversophisticated, overacademic, and overintellectual, and along the way makes penetrating…
It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. With dazzling digressions, outrageous tricks, and…
Embracing the web of multiculturalism that has become a fact of contemporary life from New York to New Delhi, Eco argues that we are more connected to people of other…
This book is collection of Eco’s columns, lectures, speeches at seminars, essays that covers numerous topics such as war, exhibitionism, education, science, law, multi-ethnic society, life, conspiracy theories as he…
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These stories are told using illustrations from talented designers. The basic objective is to introduce the classics to the newer generations, but it is also intended for the whole family…
From the best-selling author of The Name of the Rose and The Prague Cemetery, a novel about the murky world of media politics, conspiracy, and murder
Nineteenth-century Europe abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Every nation has its own secret service, and conspiracies rule history. What if, behind all of these conspiracies, both real and…
An international sensation and winner of the Premio Strega and the Prix Medicis Etranger awards, this enthralling medieval murder mystery is a brilliant deconstruction of the traditional crime novel (Iain…
