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The Infinity of Lists by Umberto Eco
$49.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
In the history of Western culture we find lists of saints, rosters of soldiers, catalogues of grotesque creatures or medicinal plants, and hordes of treasure. The poetics of lists can be found from Homer to Joyce, from the treasures of Gothic cathedrals to the fantastic landscapes of Bosch and cabinets ...Show more
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Yambo, a sixty-ish rare book dealer who lives in Milan has suffered a loss of memory; not the kind of memory neurologists call 'semantic' (Yambo remembers all about Julius Caesar and can recite every poem he has ever read), but rather his 'autobiographical' memory: he no longer knows his own name, doesn ...Show more
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana : An illustrated novel by Umberto Eco
$55.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: near fine
This remarkable illustrated novel is set to become Eco's most accessible and bestselling book since The Name of the Rose. The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana has two acts. Each act revolves around a stroke. The first stroke - the opening - takes away the protagonist's lived memory. In other words, Yambo ...Show more
The Name Of The Rose by Umberto Eco
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Read the enthralling medieval murder mystery behind the BBC TV Series The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William t ...Show more
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco; William Weaver (translator)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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 monastic orders, and a compendium of heretical movements.
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 tale of his investigations. Eco's celebrated story combines elements of detective fiction, metaphysical thriller, post-mod ...Show more
The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Nineteenth-century Europe - from Turin to Prague to Paris - abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Conspiracies rule history. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate Black Masses at night. ...Show more
This Is Not the End of the Book - A Conversation Curated by Jean-Philippe De Tonnac by Umberto Eco; Jean-Claude Carrière
$19.95 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference | Reading Level: very good
"The book is like the spoon: once invented, it cannot be bettered". (Umberto Eco). These days it is impossible to get away from discussions of whether the book will survive the digital revolution. Blogs, tweets and newspaper articles on the subject appear daily, many of them repetitive, most of them adm ...Show more
This is Not the End of the Book - Two great men discuss our digital future by Umberto Eco & Jean-Claude Carrière
$32.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
Turning Back the Clock by Umberto Eco
$29.94 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Turning Back the Clock is a brilliant collection of essays by one of the leading intellectuals of our time. After the Cold War, the 'Hot War' has made its comeback in Afghanistan and Iraq. Exhuming Kipling's "Great Game", we have gone back to the clash between Islam and Christianity. The ghost of the Ye ...Show more
Turning Back the Clock by Umberto Eco
$55.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
"Turning Back the Clock" is a brilliant collection of essays by one of the leading intellectuals of our time. With his customary sharpness and wit, Eco explains the tragic steps backwards that have been taken since the end of the last millennium. After the Cold War, the 'Hot War' has made its comeback i ...Show more