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Numero Zero by Umberto Eco
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured by local partisans and shot in a summary execution. The precise circumstances of Il Duce's death remain shrouded in confusion and controversy. 1992, Milan. Colonna, a depressed writer picking up hack work, is offered a fee he can't refuse to ghost ...Show more
Numero Zero by Umberto Eco
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The gripping new conspiracy thriller by the bestselling author of The Name of the Rose. 1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of Il Duce's death remain shrouded in confusion and controversy. 1992, Milan. Colonna takes a job at a f ...Show more
On Beauty: A History of a Western Idea by Umberto Eco
$69.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Reading Level: very good
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 of beauty that have informed us from the classical world to modern times. In terms of form and style, On Beauty has been conceived for a vast and diverse readership. Pa ...Show more
On Literature by Umberto Eco
$54.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
After the opening essay on the general significance of literature, Eco examines a number of major authors from the Western canon. A stimulating chapter on the poetic qualities of Dante's Paradiso is followed by one on the style of the Communist Manifesto. The next three essays centre of nineteenth- and ...Show more
On Literature by Umberto Eco
$31.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
After the opening essay on the general significance of literature, Eco examines a number of major authors from the Western canon. A stimulating chapter on the poetic qualities of Dante's Paradiso is followed by one on the style of the Communist Manifesto. The next three essays centre on nineteenth- and ...Show more
On Ugliness by Umberto Eco (ed.)
$95.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
This book is the follow up to the previous volume, "On Beauty". Apparently beauty and ugliness are concepts that imply each other, and by ugliness we usually mean the opposite of beauty, so all we need do is define the first to understand the nature of the second. But the various manifestations of uglin ...Show more
On Ugliness: A History of a Western Idea by Umberto Eco
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Reading Level: very good
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 second. But the various depictions of ugliness over the centuries are richer and more unpredictable than is commonly thought. The ...Show more
On the Shoulders of Giants by Umberto Eco
$65.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
The final collection of essays from the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of The Name of the Rose and The Prague Cemetery, on the subjects of art and culture. In this collection of essays we find Umberto Eco's perennial areas of interest explored in a lively and engaging style, accompani ...Show more
Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco
$26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Nineteenth-century Europe abounds with conspiracy both ghastly and mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian priests are strangled with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate black masses by night. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating forger ...Show more
Serendipities: Language and Lunacy by Umberto Eco
$29.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Italian Academy Lectures | Reading Level: very good
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 m ...Show more
The Book of Legendary Lands by Umberto Eco
$59.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
From Homer's poems to contemporary science fiction, literature through the ages has continuously invented imaginary and legendary lands, projecting there all those wishes, dreams, utopias and nightmares that are too intrusive and challenging for our limited daily reality. Umberto Eco leads us on an illu ...Show more
The Infinity of Lists by Umberto Eco
$99.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Best-selling author and philosopher Umberto Eco is currently resident at the Louvre, and his chosen theme of study is "the vertigo of lists." Reflecting on this enormous trove of human achievements, in his lyrical intellectual style he has embarked on an investigation of the phenomenon of cataloging and ...Show more